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Emery Molyneux |

One of Molyneux's celestial globes, which is
displayed in Middle
Temple Library – from the frontispiece of the Hakluyt
Society's 1889 reprint of A Learned Treatise of Globes,
both Cœlestiall and Terrestriall, one of the English editions
of Robert Hues' Latin work
Tractatus de Globis (1594) |
| Born |
Emery Molyneux
16th century
Probably England |
| Died |
June 1598
Amsterdam, Holland,
Dutch Republic |
| Nationality |
English |
| Other names |
Emerius Mulleneux (Latin), Emmerie Molineux |
| Occupation |
Maker of globes, mathematical instruments
and ordnance |
| Known for |
Making the first globes in England |
| Spouse(s) |
Anne |
Emery Molyneux (pronounced /ˈɛməri ˈmɒlɨnoʊ/ EM-ə-ree
MOL-ə-noh;
died June 1598) was an English Elizabethan
maker of globes, mathematical
instruments and ordnance. His
terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the
first to be made in England and the first to be made by an
Englishman.
Molyneux was known popularly known as a mathematician and maker of mathematical
instruments such as compasses and hourglasses. He became acquainted with many
prominent men of the day, including the writer Richard Hakluyt
and the mathematicians Robert Hues and Edward Wright. He also
knew the explorers Thomas Cavendish, Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh
and John Davis. Davis
probably introduced Molyneux to his own patron, the London merchant
William Sanderson, who largely financed the construction of the
globes. When completed, the globes were presented to Elizabeth I. Larger globes were
acquired by royalty, noblemen and academic institutions, while
smaller ones were purchased as practical navigation aids for
sailors and students. The globes were the first to be made in such
a way that they were unaffected by the humidity at sea, and they
came into general use on ships.
Molyneux emigrated to Amsterdam with his wife in 1596 or 1597. He
succeeded in interesting the States-General, the
parliament of the United Provinces, in a cannon he had
invented, but he died suddenly in June 1598, apparently in poverty.
The globe-making industry in England died with him.
Only six of his globes are believed still to be in existence.
Three of them are in England, of which one pair consisting of a
terrestrial and a celestial globe is owned by Middle Temple and
displayed in its library, while a terrestrial globe is at Petworth House in
Petworth, West Sussex.
Globe-maker
Construction
Emery Molyneux is regarded as the maker of the first terrestrial
and celestial globes in England and as the first English
globe-maker.[1]
Little is known about the man himself. Petruccio
Ubaldini, an Italian calligraphist, illuminator and ambassador[2] who
was acquainted with him, said he was "of obscure and humble family
background".[3]
It seems likely that he was the "Emery Molynox" who was presented
to the Worshipful
Company of Stationers as the apprentice of one William Cooke in
October 1557.[4] By the
1580s he had a workshop in Lambeth, on the south bank of the Thames, and
enjoyed a reputation as a mathematician and maker of mathematical
instruments.[5]
Richard Polter, in his book The Pathway to Perfect Sayling
(1605),[6]
mentioned that Molyneux had been a skilful maker of compasses and hourglasses.[7]
Through his trade, Molyneux was quite known to the explorers Thomas
Cavendish, John Davis, Francis Drake and
Walter
Raleigh, the writer Richard Hakluyt, and the mathematicians
Robert Hues and Edward Wright.[5]
The construction of globes by Molyneux appears to have been
suggested by Davis to his patron William Sanderson, a London merchant
who has been described as "one of the most munificent and patriotic
of merchant-princes of London in the days of Elizabeth I".[5]
Sanderson readily agreed to bear the manufacturing costs,[5]
and financed initial production of the globes with a capital
investment of £1,000[8]
(almost £160,000 as of 2007).[9]
Terrestrial
globes
In making his terrestrial
globes, Molyneux examined ruttiers (instructions for directions
at sea)[10] and
pilots (navigational handbooks).[11] He is
known to have given a ruttier for Brazil and the West Indies to Thomas Harriot in
1590.[7][12] He
also received advice and assistance from navigators and
mathematicians.[13]
It is likely, for instance, that Sir Walter Raleigh advised him on
a legend in Spanish about the Solomon Islands that appeared on the
terrestrial globe.[14]
Raleigh came by the information from Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a
Galician
explorer sent by King Philip II of Spain to fortify
the Strait
of Magellan after Francis Drake had passed through it. In 1584,
the Spaniard was Raleigh's guest in London for a few weeks, after
being captured by Raleigh on a journey to Europe.[15]
Molyneux accompanied Francis Drake on his 1577–1580 circumnavigation of the world; as
Ubaldini reported, "[h]e himself has been in those seas and on
those coasts in the service of the same Drake".[3]
A legend in Latin on the
terrestrial globe, explaining why Molyneux had left out the polar lands and
corrected the distance across the Atlantic Ocean between The Lizard and Cape Race in Newfoundland, concluded:
Quod equide[
m]
effeci
tu[
m]
ex meis navigationibus primo, tum deinceps
ex felici illa sub clariss. Fran. Drako ad Indos Occident,
expeditione, in qua non modo optimas quasqu[
e]
alioru[
m]
descriptiones, sed quidquid mea
quantulacu[
m]
que, vel scie[
n]
ta
vel experientia ad integru[
m]
hoc
qui[
n]
quen[
n]
io
pr[
a]
estare potuit, ad hujus operis
perfectione[
m]
co[
m]
paravi
... [I have been able to do this both in the first place from
my own voyages and secondly from that successful expedition to the
West
Indies under the most illustrious Francis Drake: in which
expedition I have put together not only all the best delineations
of others, but everything my own humble knowledge or experience has
been able to furnish in the last five years to the perfecting of
this work.]
[16]
Jodocus
Hondius (1563–1612), the
Flemish engraver and cartographer who printed
the
gores of
Molyneux's globes – from
Atlas or a Geographicke Description of
the World (1636)
On the terrestrial globe, tracks of the voyages of Francis Drake
and Thomas Cavendish around the world are marked by red and blue
lines respectively. These lines were applied when the globe was
first made. They are mentioned in a description of Molyneux's
globes in Blundeville His Exercises (1594)[17][18] by Thomas
Blundeville, a country gentleman who was an enthusiastic
student of astronomy and navigation.[19]
Thomas Cavendish appears to have helped Molyneux with his globes,
and it is possible that Molyneux accompanied him on his 1587 voyage
around the world, which returned to England on 9 September
1588.[7] In
1889, Sir Clements Markham, an English explorer,
author and geographer, pointed out that a Latin legend on the terrestrial globe, placed off
the Patagonian coast,
states: "Thomas Caundish 18 Dec. 1587 hæc terra sub
nostris oculis primum obtulit sub latitud 47 cujus seu admodum
salubris Incolæ maturi ex parte proceri sunt gigantes et vasti
magnitudinis".[20]
However, Helen
Wallis, former Map Curator of the British Library, observed in 1951 that
this was unlikely, because Molyneux incorrectly plotted Cavendish's
course in the East Indian Archipelago.[21] She
suggested, however, that another legend on the globe may indicate
that he sailed on at least one if not all of John Davis's
voyages.[22]
The mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright[23]
assisted Molyneux in plotting coastlines on the terrestrial globe
and translated some of the legends into Latin. On 10 April 1591,
the astrologer and
physician Simon
Forman visited Molyneux's workshop and taught him how to find
longitude.[7] It
appears that after Molyneux had prepared the manuscript gores (the flat
map segments attached to the globes), he had them printed by the
celebrated Flemish
engraver and cartographer Jodocus Hondius, who lived in London
between 1584 and 1593 to escape religious difficulties in Flanders.
This can be deduced from the phrase "Iodocus Hon: / dius Flan.
sc. / 1592" that appears on the celestial globe along with
Sanderson's coat of
arms and a dedication to the Queen dated 1592. Molyneux's own
name is recorded on the Middle Temple terrestrial globe in the
phrase "Emerius Mulleneux Angl.' / sumptibus Gulielmi— /
Sandersoni Londinē: / sis descripsit" ("Emery Molyneux of
England, at the expense of William Sanderson of London, described
this").[24]
Celestial
globes
Molyneux's celestial globe was virtually a copy of Gerardus
Mercator's globe of 1551, which itself was based on a globe of
1537 by Gemma
Frisius that Mercator had helped to construct.[25] To
the constellations featured on Mercator's
globe, Molyneux added the Southern
Cross and Southern Triangle, though somewhat
to the west of their true positions. His source appears to have
been Andrea
Corsali's diagram of the Antarctic sky published[26] in
1550.[27]
Molyneux's globes were the first to be constructed in such a way
that they were unaffected by humidity at sea. They were made of
flour-paste, an unusual material for the time. Simon Forman
remarked that Molyneux's moulding or casting process was "the only way to caste
[anything] whatsoever in perfecte forme ... and yt is the
perfectest and trewest waie of all wayes ... and this was the wai
that Mullenax did use to cast flowere [flour] in the verie
forme".[28][7]
The title page of
Richard Hakluyt's 1589 work
The
Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English
Nation, which announced the coming publication of Molyneux's
terrestrial globe
Publication
In 1589, Richard Hakluyt announced the forthcoming publication
of Molyneux's terrestrial globe at the end of the preface to
The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the
English Nation.[29]
Referring to the map that was inserted into the volume—a
reproduction of the "Typus Orbis Terrarum" engraved by
Franciscus Hogenberg for Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
(1570)[30]—he
wrote:
I have contented myselfe with inserting into the worke one of
the best generall mappes of the world onely, untill the comming out
of a very large and most exact terrestriall globe, collected and
reformed according to the newest, secretest, and latest
discoveries, both Spanish, Portugall and English, composed by Mr.
Emmerie Molineux of Lambeth, a rare Gentleman in his profession,
being therin for divers yeeres, greatly supported by the purse and
liberalitie of the worshipfull merchant M. William Sanderson.
[31]
Ubaldini reported Molyneux's progress in manufacturing the
globes to the Duke of Milan. He was in attendance when Molyneux
presented a pair of manuscript globes to Elizabeth I at Greenwich in July 1591.[32]
Ubaldini noted that "he gave her the globe to let her see at a
glance how much of the world she could control by means of her
naval forces".[2]
According to Wallis, the printed globes, which at 2 feet
1 inch (0.64 m) in diameter were then the largest ever
made,[33] were
published after some delay in late 1592 or early 1593.[34]
Sanderson arranged entertainments at his home in Newington Butts
to mark the presentation of these globes to the Queen. His son
William later reported the Queen's words on accepting the
terrestrial globe: "The whole earth, a present for a Prince ...";
and on accepting the celestial globe, she said: "Thou hast
presented me with the Heavens also: God guide me, to Govern my part
of the one, that I may enjoy but a mansion place in this
other."[35]
Elizabeth I saw globes and armillary spheres as symbols of her
empire and spiritual mission on earth.[36]
The royal coat of
arms was emblazoned across North America on the terrestrial
globe.[2][37]
George Gower's
Armada
Portrait of
Elizabeth I (1588?) at
Woburn Abbey. At the
top left, English
galleons
are about to engage the
Spanish
fleet, while on the right Spanish galleons are foundering in a
storm. The Queen's right hand rests on a globe below the crown of
England with her fingers covering the Americas; this has been said
to indicate England's dominion of the seas and plans for
imperialist expansion in the
New World.
[38]
Several treatises were published to describe the Molyneux globes
and provide guides on their use. Molyneux himself wrote a treatise,
now lost, entitled The Globes Celestial and Terrestrial Set
Forth in Plano, which Sanderson published in 1592.[7] In
the same year, Thomas Hood, a London-based
mathematics lecturer who had written a 1590 work on the use of
celestial globes,[39]
published The Vse of Both the Globes, Celestiall and
Terrestriall.[40] This
was followed in 1594 by two works, one of which was Blundeville's
book. The other, Tractatus de Globis et Eorum Usu
(Treatise on Globes and their Use),[41] was
published by the mathematician Robert Hues.[42] This
work went into at least 13 printings and was translated from Latin
into Dutch, English and French. In 1599, Edward Wright published
Certaine Errors in Navigation,[43] which
included commentary on the use of the terrestrial and celestial
globes developed by Molyneux.
According to Markham, "the appearance of the globes naturally
created a great sensation, and much interest was taken in
appliances which were equally useful to the student and to the
practical navigator."[13]
The largest and most prestigious globes were priced at up to £20
each: these were purchased by royalty, noblemen and academic
institutions. Among the purchasers were Thomas Bodley and the Warden of All Souls College, for their
libraries in Oxford. William
Sanderson presented the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge with a pair each.[44] The
public preacher Thomas Laughton made an inaugural gift of a
Molyneux globe to the Shrewsbury School library.[45]
Smaller globes were also made, though no examples have survived.
Sanderson is known to have presented one of these to Robert Cecil in
1595, together with Hues' "Latin booke that teacheth the use of my
great globes".[46][7]
Intended as practical navigation aids, they cost as little as
£2.[7][47]
The globes provided navigators and students with methods for
finding the place of the sun, latitude, course, distance, amplitudes, azimuths, time and declination. They
proved such a boon to navigation that they came into widespread use
on ships.[48] In
the dedication of his 1595 book The Seamans Secrets[49] to
the Lord High Admiral,
Charles Howard, the
1st Earl of Nottingham, navigator John Davis spoke of "the
mechanical practices drawn from the Arts of Mathematick, [in which]
our Country doth yield men of principal excellency", and he noted
"Mr Emery Mullenenx for the exquisite making of Globes bodies".[50]
Later
life
In the 1590s, Molyneux sought Elizabeth I's patronage for the
production of a cannon, which
he described as his "new invention, of shot and artillery, to be used principally in naval warfare:
protection of ports and harbours, a new shot to discharge a
thousand musket shot; with
wildfire not to be quenched".[51] In
March 1593, Molyneux was issued with a royal warrant. Two years later, the
merchant Robert Parkes purchased coal, saltpetre, pitch, oils and waxes for him, possibly
for the cannon. On 4 November 1596 the Privy
Council urged the Lord
Admiral "to speak to Molyneux, Bussy and the two Engelberts
about their offensive engines"[52] as
part of measures to defend England's south coast. It appears the
request was ignored. On 27 September 1594,[53]
the Queen granted Molyneux a gift of £200 and an annuity of £50. He chose to surrender the
latter when, some time between March or April 1596 and 4 June
1597,[53]
he and his wife Anne emigrated to Amsterdam, Holland.[7]
Wallis has conjectured that he took with him the printing plates
for the globes and sold them to Hondius, who had returned to
Amsterdam in 1593.[54]
A diagram of a
cannon from
John Roberts'
The Compleat Cannoniere (1652)
Why Molyneux left England for Holland is unclear. The Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography suggests it was to be able to
personally distribute his globes to European princes, since
Amsterdam was then quickly establishing itself as the centre of
globe- and map-making.[7]
However, this could not have been his intention if he had sold the
globes' plates to Hondius. It is possible that he had decided to
concentrate on manufacturing ordnance. On 26 January 1598, the States-General, the
parliament of the United Provinces, showed interest in
Molyneux's cannon and granted him a 12-year privilege on an
invention. On 6 June he lodged a second application, but he died in
Amsterdam almost immediately afterwards. His wife was granted administration of his estate in England
later that month. It seems that Molyneux died in poverty, because
Anne was granted a Dutch compassionate pension of 50 florins on 9 April 1599. Molyneux
apparently had no surviving family, and the English globe-making
industry died with him.[7] No
other globes appear to have been manufactured in England until the
appearance in the 1670s of globes by Robert Morden and William Berry, and by
Joseph Moxon.[55]
However, over 40 years after Molyneux's death, William
Sanderson the younger wrote that his globes were "yet in being,
great and small ones, Celestiall and Terrestriall, in both our
Universities and severall Libraries (here, and beyond Seas)".[56]
Influence
Edward Wright's "Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection"
(
c. 1599), otherwise known as the Wright–Molyneux
map
Cartography
In the second volume of the greatly expanded version of his book
The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries
of the English Nation (1599),[57]
Hakluyt published what is known today as the Wright–Molyneux
Map.[58]
Created by Edward Wright and based on Molyneux's terrestrial globe,
it was the first map to use Wright's improvements on Mercator's
projection.[59]
Having, it is believed, purchased the plates of Molyneux's
globes, Jodocus Hondius was granted a ten-year privilege on 1 April
1597 to make and publish a terrestrial globe. In that year, he
produced in Amsterdam a Dutch translation of Hues' Tractatus de
Globis.[60] On 31
October 1598, despite a legal challenge by rival globe-maker Jacob
van Langeren, Hondius obtained another privilege for ten years.[61] He
duly published globes in 1600 and 1601, and his sons Henricus and
Jodocus published a pair in 1613. Hondius also published a world
map in 1608 on the Mercator projection. Its reliance on the
Molyneux globe is shown by a number of legends, names and outlines
which must have been copied directly from it.[62]
In his globes of 1612, van Langeren incorporated the
improvements made by Hondius the Elder to Molyneux's globe. It is
believed that the Hondius globes also spurred Willem Blaeu to start
constructing his large globes in 1616, which were published in
1622. Molyneux's globes therefore may have indirectly influenced
the evolution of Dutch globe-making.[63]
Culture
The appearance of Molyneux's globes had a significant influence
on the culture of his time. In Shakespeare's The
Comedy of Errors, written between 1592 and 1594, one of
the protagonists,
Dromio of Syracuse, compares a kitchen maid to a terrestrial globe:
"No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip: she is
spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her."[64] The
jest gained its point from the publication of the globes;
Shakespeare may even have seen them himself.[36]
Elizabethan
dramatist Thomas Dekker
wrote in one of his plays published in The Gull's
Horn-book (1609):[7]
What an excellent workman, therefore, were he that could cast
the globe of it into a new mould. And not to make it look like
Molyneux his globe, with a round face sleeked and washed over with
white of eggs, but have it in plano as it was at first, with all
the ancient circles, lines, parallels and figures.
[65]
It has been suggested that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company
that Shakespeare worked for as an actor and playwright for most of
his career, named their playing space the Globe Theatre, built in 1599, as a
response to the growing enthusiasm for terrestrial and celestial
globes stimulated by those of Molyneux.[66]
In Twelfth
Night (1600–1601),[67]
Shakespeare alluded to the Wright–Molyneux Map when Maria says of
Malvolio: "He does smile
his face into more lynes, than is in the new Mappe, with the
augmentation of the Indies."[59]
Globes
today
Only six Molyneux globes are known to exist today, two
terrestrial globes and four celestial globes. Three celestial
globes are in Germany, one each in Zerbst, Nuremberg (at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
(German National Museum)) and Kassel (Hessisches Landesmuseum (Hesse Museum), Kassel). The
Hessisches Landesmuseum once had a 1592 terrestrial globe, but it
is believed to have been destroyed during World War II. Three globes remain in
England: one pair, consisting of a terrestrial and a celestial
globe, is owned by Middle Temple in London and displayed in
its library, while a terrestrial globe is at Petworth House in
Petworth, West Sussex.[68]
Petworth
House globe
A terrestrial globe was discovered in Lord
Leconfield's library at Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex, in July 1949.[69]
According to the tradition of the Wyndham family, who are descended
from Henry Percy, the
9th Earl of Northumberland, the globe belonged to Sir Walter
Raleigh, who gave it to Northumberland when they were imprisoned
together in the Tower of London. Northumberland, known
as the "Wizard Earl" for his interest in scientific and alchemical experiments and his
library,[70] was
suspected of being involved in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 because his
relative Thomas Percy was among the
conspirators. James I imprisoned Raleigh in the
Tower for his supposed involvement in the Main Plot. Although the theory is supported
by circumstantial evidence, a
number of entries in Northumberland's accounts relating to the
mending of globes, one dating back to 1596, suggest that the
Molyneux globe may have belonged to him from the beginning and was
not Raleigh's.[71] The
globe, however, almost certainly spent many years in the Tower
before its transfer to Petworth House, where Northumberland was
confined upon his release in 1621.[68]
The Petworth House globe, now in the North Gallery, is the only
Molyneux terrestrial globe preserved in its original 1592 state.
One of Molyneux's "great globes", measuring 2 feet 1 inch
(0.64 m) in diameter, it was reported in 1952 to be in poor
condition despite restoration by the British Museum the previous year.[68]
The northern hemisphere was darkened by dirt
and badly rubbed in places, to the extent that it was hard to read.
Parts of it, and large sections of the southern hemisphere, are missing
altogether.[72]
The restoration work revealed that the globe is weighted with sand
and made from layers of small pieces of paper overlaid with a coat
of plaster about
1⁄8 inch (3 mm) thick. On top of this is
another layer of paper over which the gores are pasted. The globe
retains its wooden horizon circle and brass meridian ring, but its hour circle
and index are missing.[73]
Further restoration took place between 1995 and 1997.[74] The
globe was exhibited at the Royal Geographical Society
in 1951 and 1952.[68]
Middle
Temple globes
Molyneux's terrestrial globe temporarily exhibited at the
British Museum on
27 November 2006
A bill in the accounts of 11 April 1717 for "repairing the
globes in the library"[75]
is the earliest reference to the Middle Temple's ownership of the Molyneux
terrestrial and celestial globes.[76]
Markham's view was that Robert Ashley (1565–1641), a barrister of the Middle
Temple who was also an ardent geographer, was likely to have left the
globes to the Inn in his will, together with his books.
Ashley's books formed the nucleus of the Inn's original library and
included copies of the second edition of Hues' Tractatus de
Globis and other works on cosmography.[77] On
the other hand, Wallis has said that Markham's view is not
supported by any available evidence and the globes are not
mentioned in the will. She believes that they were probably
acquired by Middle Temple on their publication in 1603.[78]
The celestial globe is dated 1592, but the terrestrial globe
bears the year 1603 and is the only example of its kind.[34]
Wallis has surmised that the globes were made by Hondius in
Amsterdam in 1603 for a purchaser in England, perhaps the Middle
Temple itself. The celestial globe was made from the original 1592
printing plates, while the terrestrial globe was produced using
revised plates redated to 1603.[79] The
Middle Temple terrestrial globe differs from the Petworth House
globe of 1592 by incorporating Raleigh's discoveries in Guiana[80] and
adding new place-names in Brazil, Peru
and Africa, as well as an island marked "Corea" off the coast of China.[81] The
most extensive revision altered the Northeast Passage
to take account of discoveries made on Willem Barentsz's third voyage to Novaya Zemlya in
1596. It appears that the revisions to the original plates of
Molyneux's globe were completed by 1597, because no discoveries
after that year are included.[82] It is
possible that Molyneux helped Hondius to update the plates in 1596
or 1597. For instance, if Hondius had obtained a copy of Raleigh's
map of Guiana, Molyneux was the most likely source.[83]
Unlike the Petworth House globe, the Middle Temple globes are
heavily varnished. The
varnish could have been first applied as early as 1818 when the
globes were repaired by J. and W. Newton; they were certainly
varnished by Messrs. Holland Hannen & Cubitts, Ltd. during
maintenance work in 1930.[72]
A drawing of Middle Temple Library in 1892 by Herbert Railton
At the start of World War II, the globes were sent to Beaconsfield and
stored with part of the Wallace Collection at Hall Barn in
the care of Lady
Burnham. They were brought back to London in 1945 and were at
one stage kept in the King's Library on loan to the British
Museum.[68][84] The
globes were installed in their present position in the Middle
Temple Library when the current library building opened in
1958.[75]
In 2003, they were loaned to the National Maritime Museum for
an exhibition commemorating the life of Elizabeth I.[85]
In 2004, Middle Temple proposed selling the Molyneux globes,
valued at over £1 million, to create a scholarship fund for
the education and training of needy would-be barristers. Its
members eventually decided by a large majority against such a move.
There was also a general feeling that the globes should be made
more accessible to those wishing to see them.[86]
The Middle Temple's Molyneux globes are the subject of a
book-length project, The Molyneux Globes: Mathematical Practice
and Theory, by Dr. Lesley B. Cormack, Professor and Chair of
the Department of History and Classics of the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta.[87] The
project examines the community of mathematicians, natural
philosophers, instrument-makers, and gentlemen-virtuosi that
developed around the creation of the Molyneux globes, particularly
the histories of four men who wrote treatises about the globes and
the larger mathematical community.[88]
Hessisches Landesmuseum
globe
The Molyneux globes at the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Kassel, were
inherited from the collection of William IV
(William the Wise), the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), a pioneer
of astronomical
research. William himself died in 1592, so it has been surmised
that his son and successor, Maurice, purchased
the globes for the collection. They were first mentioned in 1765 in
the index of the Mathematische Kammer (Mathematics Chamber) of the
Fürstliches Kunsthaus (Princely Art Gallery) in Kassel, during the
reign of Landgrave Frederick III.[89] Only
a celestial globe survives today; it is believed that the
terrestrial globe was destroyed during World War II.
Early books about
Molyneux's globes
- Hood, Thomas
(1592), The Vse of both the Globes, Celestiall, and
Terrestriall most Plainely Deliuered in Forme of a Dialogue.
Containing most Pleasant, and Profitable Conclusions for the
Mariner, and Generally for all those, that are Addicted to these
Kinde of Mathematicall Instrumentes. VVritten by T. Hood
Mathematicall Lecturer in the Citie of London, sometime Fellow of
Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge, London: Imprinted ... at the
three Cranes in the Vintree, by Thomas Dawson, OCLC 222243462
. A modern reprint
was published as:
- Hood, Thomas
(1971), The Use of Both the Globes, Celestiall and
Terrestriall, Amsterdam; New York, N.Y.: Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum; Da Capo Press, ISBN
9789022103890
.
- Hues, Robert
(1594), Tractatus de globis et eorum usu: accommodatus iis qui
Londini editi sunt anno 1593, sumptibus Gulielmi Sandersoni civis
Londinensis, conscriptus à Roberto Hues [Treatise on Globes and
their Use: Adapted to those which have been Published in London in
the Year 1593, at the Expense of William Sanderson, a London
Resident, Written by Robert Hues], London: In ædibus Thomæ
Dawson [in the house of Thomas Dawson], OCLC 61370973
(in Latin). Octavo. The work went
into 12 other printings in Dutch (1597, 1613 and 1622), English
(1638 and 1659), French (1618) and Latin (1611, 1613, 1617, 1627,
1659 and 1663),[90] and a
modern reprint of the English version was published as:
- Blundeville,
Thomas (1594), M. Blundevile His Exercises containing Sixe
Treatises, the Titles wherof are Set Down in the Next Printed Page:
Which Treatises are Verie Necessarie to be Read and Learned of all
Yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene Exercised in such Disciplines,
and yet are Desirous to haue Knowledge as well in Cosmographie,
Astronomie, and Geographie, as also in the Arte of Navigation ...
To the Furtherance of which Arte of Navigation, the said M.
Blundevile Speciallie Wrote the said Treatises and of Meere Good
Will doth Dedicate the same to all the Young Gentlemen of this
Realme, London: Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe
of the crosse Keies, neere Paules wharffe, and are there to be
solde, OCLC 55186822
. Further editions
were published, including those in 1606 (3rd), 1613 (4th), 1636
(7th) and 1638 (7th, "corrected and somewhat enlarged"). The work
includes (at pp. 515–519 of the 7th ed.), a description of
Molyneux's globes and an account of Sir Francis Drake's voyage around the
world.
- Wright, Edward (1599),
Certaine Errors in Navigation: Arising either of the Ordinarie
Erroneous Making or Vsing of the Sea Chart, Compasse, Crosse
Staffe, and Tables of Declination of the Sunne, and Fixed Starres
Detected and Corrected, London: Printed ... by Valentine
Sims
. Another version
of the work published in the same year was entitled Wright, Edward (1599),
Errors in nauigation 1 Error of two, or three whole points of
the compas, and more somtimes, by reason of making the sea-chart
after the accustomed maner ... 2 Error of one whole point, and more
many times, by neglecting the variation of the compasse. 3 Error of
a degree and more sometimes, in the vse of the crosse staffe ... 4
Error of 11. or 12. minures [sic] in the declination of the sunne,
as it is set foorth in the regiments most commonly vsed among
mariners: and consequently error of halfe a degree in the place of
the sunne. 5 Error of halfe a degree, yea an whole degree and more
many times in the declinations of the principall fixed starres, set
forth to be obserued by mariners at sea. Detected and corrected by
often and diligent obseruation. Whereto is adioyned, the right H.
the Earle of Cumberland his voyage to the Azores in the yeere 1589.
wherin were taken 19. Spanish and Leaguers ships, together with the
towne and platforme of Fayal, London: Printed ... [by
Valentine Simmes and W. White] for Ed. Agas, OCLC 55176994
. Mentions the use
of Molyneux's terrestrial and celestial globes. Two further
editions were published in 1610 and 1657, and the work was
reprinted as:
- Wright, Edward
(1974), Certaine errors in navigation; the voyage of ... George
Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores, Amsterdam; Norwood, N.J.:
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; Walter J. Johnson, OCLC 1359008
.
Notes
- ^ A manuscript, MS
Harl. 5208, at pp. 50–51, which is an account "by a Freind" of
William Sanderson's achievements, describes the globes as "the
first soe published in Christendome, for the honor of his countrey,
and good of the Schollers, Gentrye and Marriners of the same." No
earlier English-made globes are known: Helen M[argaret] Wallis (1951), "The first
English globe: A recent discovery", The Geographical Journal
117: 275, n. 1
.
- ^ a
b
c
Amy Dempsey
(2003), Elizabeth's adventurers:
Imperial ambition: The state of the nation, National Maritime Museum,
archived from the original on 29 June
2007, http://web.archive.org/web/20070629225753/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.6146, retrieved 7 February
2008
.
- ^ a
b
Anna Maria Crinò;
Helen Wallis
(1987), "New researches on the Molyneux globes", Der
Globusfreund 35: 11 at 14
.
- ^
E[dward]
Arber, ed. (1875–1894), A Transcript of the Registers of the
Company of Stationers of London ... 1554–1640 A.D, London:
Privately printed, OCLC 230266111
, 5 vols.
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b
c
d
Clements R.
Markham, "Introduction", in Robert Hues;
Clements R. Markham, ed. (1889), Tractatus de globis et
eorum usu: A Treatise Descriptive of the Globes Constructed by
Emery Molyneux and Published in 1592 [Hakluyt Society, 1st ser.,
pt. II, no. 79a], London: Hakluyt Society, p. xxvi, OCLC 149869781, http://books.google.com/books?id=HYfE8Z8PrAgC
.
- ^
Richard
Polter (1605), The Pathway to Perfect Sayling: Being a
Deliuerie in as Breefe Mannera as may bee, of the Sixe Principall
Pointes or Groundes, concerning Nauigation: Written by Mr. Richard
Polter, one of the Late Principall Maisters of the Nauie Royall.
And now Published for the Common Good of all Maisters, Pilots, and
other Seamen whatsoeuer., London: Edward Allde for Iohn Tappe, and are to be
solde at his shop on Tower-Hill neere the Bul-warke Gate, OCLC 222545121
.
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b
c
d
e
f
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i
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l
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.
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This sum was calculated using the website MeasuringWorth.com based on the retail
price index, using a date of 1590: Lawrence H. Officer, Purchasing power of
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According to the Oxford English
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for finding one's course at sea; a marine guide to the routes,
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"pilot, n. and
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Wallis, "The first English globe", pp. 277–278.
- ^ a
b
"Introduction", Tractatus de Globis, p. xii.
- ^
The legend, which appears in the Pacific Ocean, states: "Islas
estas descubrio Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa por la corona de Castilla
y Leon desde el año 1568 llamolas Islas de Jesus aunque vulgarmente
las llaman Islas de Salomon" ("Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
discovered these islands and claimed them for the crown of Castile and
León. From 1568 onwards, the islands were named the Jesus
Islands, though they are more commonly known as the Solomon
Islands"): "Introduction", Tractatus de Globis, p.
xxx.
- ^
"Introduction", Tractatus de Globis, p. xxx.
- ^
Helen M[argaret] Wallis
(1951), "The first English globe: A recent discovery", The
Geographical Journal 117: 275 at
279
.
- ^
Thomas
Blundeville (1594), M. Blundevile His Exercises containing
Sixe Treatises, the Titles wherof are Set Down in the Next Printed
Page: Which Treatises are Verie Necessarie to be Read and Learned
of all Yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene Exercised in such
Disciplines, and yet are Desirous to haue Knowledge as well in
Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, as also in the Arte of
Navigation ... To the Furtherance of which Arte of Navigation, the
said M. Blundevile Speciallie Wrote the said Treatises and of Meere
Good Will doth Dedicate the same to all the Young Gentlemen of this
Realme, London: Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe
of the crosse Keies, neere Paules wharffe, and are there to be
solde, OCLC 55186822
.
- ^
"Introduction", Tractatus de Globis, p. xxxi.
- ^
"Introduction", Tractatus de Globis, p. xix, n. 1. See
Tessa
Beverley (2004), "Blundeville, Thomas (1522?–1606?)", Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography (Online ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2718
.
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"Introduction", Tractatus de Globis, pp. xxx.
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Wallis, "The first English globe", p. 283.
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Helen M[argaret] Wallis
(1962), "Globes in England up to 1660", Geographical Magazine
35: 267–279
.
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A.J. Apt (2004),
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.
- ^
"Introduction", Tractatus de Globis, p. xxxi. The texts of
the inscriptions are from Wallis, "The first English globe", p.
280.
- ^
It has also been stated that Molyneux's celestial globe was based
largely on the 52.5-centimetre (20.7 in) celestial globe made
by Dutch globe-maker Jacob Floris van Langren, and that it shows
the canonical 48 Ptolemaic
constellations
of the Southern Hemisphere created by the
Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius: Susan Doran, ed. (2003), Elizabeth: The
Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, London: Chatto and
Windus in association with the National Maritime Museum,
p. 134, ISBN
9780701174767
.
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In Giovanni Battista
Ramusio, ed. (1550), Primo Volume delle Navigationi et Viaggi
nel qual si contiene la descrittione dell'Africa: e del Paese del
Prete Ianni, con varii viaggi, dal Mar Rosso à Calicut, et infin
all'Isole Molucche ... et la Navigatione attorno il Mondo [First
Volume of Navigation and Travels which include the Description of
Africa: and of the Lands of Prester John, with Several Travels,
from the Red Sea to Calicut and finally to the Moluccan Islands ...
and the Navigation Around the World], [Veneto]: Gli Heredi di Lucantonio Giunti [The
Heirs of Lucantonio Guinti], OCLC 83018526
(Italian).
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Wallis, "The first English globe", pp. 283–284.
- ^
Bodleian
Library, Oxford, MS Ashmole 1494, folio 1491.
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Richard Hakluyt
(1589), The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of
the English Nation: Made by Sea or Over Land to the Most Remote and
Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time within the
Compasse of These 1500 Years: Divided into Three Several Parts
According to the Positions of the Regions Whereunto They Were
Directed; the First Containing the Personall Travels of the English
unto Indæa, Syria, Arabia ... the Second, Comprehending the Worthy
Discoveries of the English Towards the North and Northeast by Sea,
as of Lapland ... the Third and Last, Including the English Valiant
Attempts in Searching Almost all the Corners of the Vaste and New
World of America ... Whereunto is Added the Last Most Renowned
English Navigation Round About the Whole Globe of the Earth,
London: Imprinted by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to
Christopher Barker, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie,
OCLC 270809208
.
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Abraham
Ortelius (1570), Theatrum orbis terrarum, opus nunc denuó
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quamplurimis nouis, tabilis atqué commentarijs auctum [Theatre of
the Globe, a Work now Collected Anew by the Same Author and
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.
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Susan Doran, ed.
(2003), Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime
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9780701174767
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first pair of Molyneux's globes was presented to Elizabeth I in
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without a Name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins Two
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9780701174767
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Karen Hearn,
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Thomas Hood
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two Hemispheres: wherein are Placed All the Most Notable Starres of
Heauen according to their Longitude, Latitude, Magnitude, and
Constellation: whereunto are Annexed their Names, both Latin,
Greeke, and Arabian or Chaldee: also their Nature, and the
Poeticall Reason of each Seuerall Constellation: moreouer, in this
Book is Set Downe the Declination of the Starres which haue any
Particular Name, with their Right Ascension and the Degree of any
Signe wherewith they Come to the Meridian [et] the Time of the
Yeare wherein they may be Seene there, London: Imprinted for
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Thomas Hood
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(Latin).
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northeast coast of South America.
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Korea is in fact a peninsula.
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Wallis, "Further light on the Molyneux globes", pp. 304–305.
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Wallis, "Further light on the Molyneux globes", pp. 306, 308.
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Wallis, "The first English globe", p. 276.
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Further
reading
Articles and book
chapters
- Wallis, Helen
M[argaret] (1968), "The use of terrestrial and celestial globes
in England", Actes du XI Congres International d'Histoire des
Sciences, Wroclaw, London, pp. 204–212
.
- Fisher, R.M.
(February 1974), "William Crashawe and the Middle Temple Globes
1605–15", The Geographical Journal
140 (1): 105–112, doi:10.2307/1797012
.
- Crinò,
Anna Maria; Wallis, Helen (1987), "New researches on the Molyneux
globes", Der Globusfreund 35:
1120
.
- Wallis, Helen
M[argaret] (1989), "Opera mundi: Emery Molyneux, Jodocus Hondius
and the first English globes", in van Uchelen, Ton Croiset; van der
Horst, Koert; Schilder, Günter, Theatrum Orbis Librorum: Liber
Amicorum Presented to Nico Israel ..., Utrecht: HES, ISBN
9789061943679
.
- Barber, Peter
(2004), "Was Elizabeth I interested in maps – and did it matter?",
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
14: 185–198, doi:10.1017/S0080440104000131
.
- McConnell, Anita
(January 2006; online ed. May 2007), Scientific instrument
makers, Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, online ed, http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/92/92750.html, retrieved 28 January
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- Cohen, A[dam] M[ax]
(Winter 2006), "Englishing the globe: Molyneux's globes and
Shakespeare's theatrical career", The Sixteenth Century
Journal 37 (4): 963–984
.
- Lesser, Zachary
(2007), "Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern
Technological Revolutions. By Adam Max Cohen [book review]",
The Review of English Studies 58 (233):
97–99, doi:10.1093/res/hgm019
.
Books
- Williamson,
John Bruce (1930), Catalogue of silver plate; the property of
the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple with notes and illustrations,
including some particulars regarding the Molyneux globes,
[London]: Printed by Bonner, OCLC 901552
.
- Williamson, John Bruce ([1930]),
Notes on the Molyneux Globes, [London]: Honourable Society of
the Middle Temple, OCLC 9845317
.
| Persondata |
| NAME |
Molyneux, Emery |
| ALTERNATIVE
NAMES |
Mulleneux, Emerius (Latin);
Molineux, Emmerie |
| SHORT
DESCRIPTION |
English maker of globes,
mathematical instruments and ordnance |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
Unknown |
| PLACE OF
BIRTH |
Probably England |
| DATE OF DEATH |
June 1598 |
| PLACE OF
DEATH |
Amsterdam, Holland, Dutch
Republic |