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The cartouche addressed to the reader, placed in the southern Indian Ocean, in which attention is drawn to the many improvements made on the basis of the latest information. These include updated outlines from recalculated latitudes and longitudes and the addition of 'many eminent cittys and towns' omitted from earlier globes. (Reproduced with kind permission from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge, detail from 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...
