This globe was made by Arnold Floris van Langren in 1608. Together with his father Jacob, he made The Netherlands globe production world famous. The Zutphen’s globe was dedicated by Van Langren to “the most honourable, most educated and most focused council and population of Zutphen”. You can read this in the damaged textbox. In the photo you can better see the text. The municipal authorities paid 60 Carolus guilders for this globe. From the beginning of the sixteenth century globes were made to depict the world. Paper printed cards were cut out and stuck to parts of the globe. It is made of papier-mâché and finished with a layer of plaster. The first globes were not as big as the one you see here. Van Langren produced this big globe, first in 1589, based on Mercator's famous world map of 1569. On this globe you can see several unique illustrations. They tell us something about the time in which the globe was made. Willem Barentsz’s winter stay on Nova Zembla in 1596 can be seen for the first time. Near the North Pole, Barentsz’s ship and the hut Behouden Huys are drawn. If you look carefully you can also see the Great Wall of China.