About World Globes

A gore is a segment of a three-dimensional  shape fabricated from a two-dimensional material.  Globes of the Earth were first mass produced by Gerard Mercator using a process of printing map details on 12 paper gores that were cut out then pasted to a sphere.  Also as seen below are samples of a 6 map gores. The first one is an early 1500’s map gore, the second picture is a modern digital map gore of the earth now used to make the Earthball.