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The earliest globe in this collection dates back to 1728 and is by the famous German cartographer and globe maker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr of Nuremberg. This collection also contains a terrestrial globe made for King George III of the United Kingdom in 1811 by Dudley Adams, ‘Globe and Instrument Maker to the King,’ as well as a pair of terrestrial and celestial globes by William Edward Newton and Miles Berry dated 1838, and an American Cosmosphere which consists of a terrestrial globe inside a revolving glass celestial sphere from 1867.
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