Literary notes about globular (AI summary)
The word "globular" is employed across literature to evoke a sense of perfect, spherical form—a visual quality both mesmerizing and functionally descriptive. In works of fiction and science alike, authors use "globular" to highlight the flawless, round appearance of natural objects and man-made items. For instance, Jules Verne lauds a gem’s globular shape for its clarity and lustre, conferring it with inestimable value ([1], [2]), while botanical texts mention flowers and capsules transforming into or displaying a globular form ([3], [4], [5]). This term also appears in mechanical and technical descriptions, as seen in detailed accounts of coffee roasters that incorporate closed, spherical designs ([6], [7], [8]). Even ancient texts, like those of Lucretius and Aesop, invoke "globular" to describe both natural phenomena and artistic representations, thereby underscoring its broad appeal and adaptability across different genres and eras ([9], [10], [11]).
- Its globular shape, perfect clearness, and admirable lustre made it altogether a jewel of inestimable value.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - Its globular shape, perfect clarity, and wonderful orient made it a jewel of incalculable value.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - 189 The flowers have been greatly modified in shape from a flat to a globular form.
— from The King James Version of the Bible - The flowers, usually small, are arranged in spikes or globular heads at the axils of the leaves near the extremity of the branches.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Capsule globular, about the size of a pea, black, coriaceous, thorny, bivalvate.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera - They make also the Typhoon and Comet machines, and a line of globular roasters.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - 1870—Alexius Van Gulpen, Emmerich, Germany, brings out a globular coffee roaster having perforations and an exhauster.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - In the eighties this concern began the manufacture of a closed ball, or globular, roaster with gas-heater attachment.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - In fact, though rough, they're globular besides, Able at once to roll, and rasp the sense.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus - If occasionally globular pieces of scoriæ abound in an agglomerate, they may not owe their round form to attrition.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - Special Forms of Structure. — The columnar and globular Forms. —
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop