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Found at Atlas Obscura : Pocket globes had been circulating since the 1600s, especially among sailors and students of cartography, write science journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller in their recent book,  All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey .  At the time, cartographic works ran the gamut from erudite and accessible, both in content and price. Lavishly illustrated atlases and star charts were  designed for a lay audience , while comprehensive catalogues helped astronomers and navigators get more precise bearings. Cushee’s fell somewhere in between. Cushee didn’t need to be condescended to. Her edition was an improvement upon  one made by her late husband , Richard, a British surveyor, in 1731. Elizabeth updated Richard’s version to be in line with the cartographic knowledge of the time, Mason and Miller explain. She added arrows to mark the path of the trade winds, and attached California to the coast of North America (previously, it had floated as an ...