 Having , it is believed , purchased the plates of Molyneux 's globes , Jodocus Hondius was granted a ten @-@ year privilege on 1 April 1597 to make and publish a terrestrial globe . In that year , he produced in Amsterdam a Dutch translation of Hues ' Tractatus de Globis . On 31 October 1598 , despite a legal challenge by rival globe @-@ maker Jacob van <unk> , Hondius obtained another privilege for ten years . He duly published globes in 1600 and 1601 , and his sons Henricus and Jodocus published a pair in 1613 . Hondius also published a world map in 1608 on the Mercator projection . Its reliance on the Molyneux globe is shown by a number of legends , names and outlines which must have been copied directly from it . 
