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Detail from the Whipple globe, showing the globe-makers' modest acknowledgement (circled) of a 'Dutch Discovery' among the many English achievements celebrated on their map. (Reproduced with kind permission from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge, Wh. 2691.)
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Throughout the early modern period, the intellectual and symbolic value of globes ensured these objects enjoyed a broad cultural appeal. Consequently, their design was subject to a wide range of social, commercial and intellectual pressures. The ways in which the intellectual and cultural concerns of seventeenth-century England became manifest in t...
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... the accomplishments of Drake and Cavendish alone, the Whipple globe's makers associate geographical knowledge principally with the two English explorers. This is juxtaposed with the contribution of other nations: for example, a tiny section of coastline depicted just above the cartouche in the Indian Ocean, is labelled 'Dutch Discovery' (Fig. 5). 49 Further evidence of English cultural influence on the Whipple globe is found in the cartographic representation of the northern coast of America. For many years, European explorers had sought a sea route to the north of the American continent that would permit access to the East Indies, thus by-passing the long routes dominated by ...
