re: Thanks, Fox & Raoul.
No wonder the Orbis ones are sold out. I was going to add to this by asking if they also made globes showing the Earth lights... sure enough they do.
Raoul, I was actually aiming deeper than observing the Earth from space when I wrote Eliot's quote. I liked Davin's reference to the Nautilus in archeo/geologic time. It's amazing how far Ribonucci got by analytically observing and comtemplating nature from rabbits, flowers and shells to the moon (and the birth of integrated circuitry... independent rabbits and shells).
LOL Happy Independence Day!