Jason Nguyen The National Maritime Museum in London houses thousands of artifacts from British nautical history. Among these items is a small handheld globe from 1719 by the British cartographer Herman Moll (Fig. 1). These popular commodities, made of papier-mâché and plaster and wrapped in printed and hand-colored paper, functioned…
Handheld Cartography: Herman Moll’s Pocket Globes and Speculative Capital in the 1710s
