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. Wallis, The first English globe: A recent discovery, The Geographical Journal, 1951, 117 (3): 275–290, JSTOR 1791852, doi:10.2307/1791852
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. Wallis, The first English globe: A recent discovery, The Geographical Journal, 1951, 117 (3): 275–290, JSTOR 1791852, doi:10.2307/1791852
