| John and William Newton — Newton’s New and Improved Celestial Globe and Newton’s New and Improved Terrestrial Globe |
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Newton’s New and Improved Celestial Globe and Newton’s New and Improved Terrestrial Globe |
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Published: London 1820 Dimensions: Diameter 16 in.; height (in stand) 34 in. The Venerable Newton Family The venerable Newton family of cartographers was the leading English globemaking firm of the early nineteenth century. The firm's history dates back to Nathaniel Hill of the mid-eighteenth century, who taught the art of globemaking to Thomas Bateman (fl. 1754-1781), who then trained John Newton (1759-1844), the patriarch of the Newton firm. John Newton began his firm in 1780, first publishing a reissue of a Nathaniel Hill pocket globe in partnership with William Palmer. Soon after the turn of the nineteenth century, Newton was joined in business by his second son William (1786-1861), changing the firm’s name to J.& W. Newton. From 1831 to 1841, Miles Berry, a civil engineer, was a member of the firm. After 1841, ownership passed to William Newton's eldest son William Edward Newton (1818-79). Alfred Vincent (1821-1900) also became associated with the firm, and it remained in operation by subsequent generations until the early twentieth century. |
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