{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Thompson, Olive M." }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Globes" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "London" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Presented to the Royal Colonial Institute (now the Royal Commonwealth Society) in 1953 by Olive M. Thompson" }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "English" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "
This pocket terrestrial globe is just seven centimetres in diameter and has a protective case covered with sharkskin and lined with a celestial chart. Pocket globes were first produced in England by Joseph Moxon (1627\u20131691), and they remained in vogue as a gentleman\u2019s toy well into the nineteenth century. Commonly\u2014as here\u2014they showed the latest terrestrial and celestial discoveries. This globe shows the track of Lieutenant James Cook\u2019s First Voyage from 1768 to 1771 in the Endeavour<\/i> and the depiction of New Zealand reflects the discoveries Cook made. It was presented to the Royal Colonial Institute (now the Royal Commonwealth Society) in 1953 by Olive M. Thompson.<\/p>