Matthew Edney<p>I have long been amused by the use of <a href="https://historians.social/tags/globes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globes</span></a> as props for "the precociously smart child" in TV and film. I am now validated by no less a figure than Otto Neurath (1933):</p><p>"The globe is also increasingly becoming a decorative item and is used, for example, by theater and film directors to mark the room of a scholar, although hardly anyone today believes that he or she is actually studying on the globe."</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/maphistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maphistory</span></a></p>