Emery Molyneux
English globemaker (died 1598) · Scientists
Emery Molyneux 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.
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A typical day, 30 days to 15 June 2026
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A portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh with a globe, attributed to Federico Zuccari (1542/1543-1609)
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)
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![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, indicating England's [command of the seas] and [dreams of establishing colonies] in the New World".[38]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg/500px-Elizabeth_I_%28Armada_Portrait%29.jpg)
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, indicating England's [command of the seas] and [dreams of establishing colonies] in the New World".[38]
A diagram of a cannon from John Roberts' The Compleat Cannoniere (1652)
Edward Wright's "Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection" (c. 1599), otherwise known as the Wright-Molyneux map
Petworth House, West Sussex, in 1986About this person
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Died 1598
