The Seventeenth-Century Terrestrial Globe by Morden, Berry and Lea. Issue Volume 71:Issues 1(2019) (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Perkins, Emma
• Is Part Of: Imago mundi. Volume 71:Issues 1(2019)
• Page Start: 51
• Page End: 64
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Terrestrial globe -- Robert Morden -- William Berry -- Philip Lea -- Joseph Moxon -- scientific instruments -- Whipple Museum -- circumnavigation routes -- Francis Drake -- Thomas Cavendish -- Royal Society -- England -- seventeenth century; Cartography -- Periodicals; Early maps -- Periodicals; Cartographie -- Périodiques; Cartes anciennes -- Périodiques; 912.05
• DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2019.1529909
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0308-5694

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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 the cartographic design, resulting in a culturally specific product with broad appeal to an English audience, are highlighted in the case of a terrestrial globe constructed by Robert Morden, William Berry and Philip Lea, c .1683−1690, now in the Whipple Museum, Cambridge. Since this particular globe was produced at an early stage in the history of English globe making, light is shed on the emergence of a national globe-making tradition.