 Emery Molyneux is regarded as the maker of the first terrestrial and celestial globes in England and as the first English globe @-@ maker . Little is known about the man himself . Petruccio Ubaldini , an Italian calligraphist , illuminator and ambassador who was acquainted with him , said he was " of obscure and humble family background " . It seems likely that he was the " Emery Molynox " who was presented to the Worshipful Company of Stationers as the apprentice of one William Cooke in October 1557 . By the 1580s he had a workshop in Lambeth , on the south bank of the Thames , and enjoyed a reputation as a mathematician and maker of mathematical instruments . Richard Polter , in his book The Pathway to Perfect Sayling ( 1605 ) , mentioned that Molyneux had been a skilful maker of compasses and hourglasses . 
