 The appearance of Molyneux 's globes had a significant influence on the culture of his time . In Shakespeare 's The Comedy of Errors , written between 1592 and 1594 , one of the protagonists , Dromio of Syracuse , compares a kitchen maid to a terrestrial globe : " No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip : she is spherical , like a globe ; I could find out countries in her . " The jest gained its point from the publication of the globes ; Shakespeare may even have seen them himself . Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker wrote in one of his plays published in The Gull 's Horn @-@ book ( 1609 ) : 
