Fig 2 - The Seventeenth-Century Terrestrial Globe by Morden, Berry and Lea

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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Fig. 2. 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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