Martin Behaim (6 October 1459 – 29 July 1507), also known as Martin von Behaim and by various forms of Martin of Bohemia, was a German textile merchant...
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Erdapfel (redirect from Martin Behaim’s globe)
[ˈeːɐ̯tˌʔapfl̩] ) is a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by Martin Behaim from 1490 to 1492. The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial...
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150 BC. The oldest surviving terrestrial globe is the Erdapfel, made by Martin Behaim in 1492. The oldest surviving celestial globe sits atop the Farnese...
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Caveri planisphere and others similar to those of Henricus Martellus or Martin Behaim. The Caribbean and what appears to be Florida were depicted on two earlier...
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Behaim is a lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon, just to the south of the crater Ansgarius. To the south of Behaim is...
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doubt that Schöner was familiar with the globe made in Nuremberg by Martin Behaim in 1492. An inscription across the northern part of America, says: “This...
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behind. That Cão, on his second voyage of 1484–1486, was accompanied by Martin Behaim (as alleged on the latter's Nuremberg globe of 1492) is very doubtful...
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told in various places. The principal source is an inscription on Martin Behaim's 1492 Nuremberg globe which reads (in English translation): In the year...
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(b. 1259) 1504 – Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (b. 1435) 1507 – Martin Behaim, German-Bohemian geographer and astronomer (b. 1459) 1573 – John Caius...
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The peak was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Martin Behaim, a German cosmographer and navigator who is credited with the first...
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on Google Books). Handy Volume Atlas (1895; seventh edition, 1907) Martin Behaim. His Life and his Globe (1908) A Life's Work (1908) The New Census Physical...
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second- or third-oldest known terrestrial globe, after the Erdapfel of Martin Behaim (1492) and the Ostrich Egg Globe (claimed 1504). The Hunt-Lenox Globe...
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Columbus' ship Santa María runs aground off Cap-Haïtien, and is lost. Martin Behaim constructs the first surviving globe of Earth, the Erdapfel. As Columbus...
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"Azores" used to identify the archipelago. By 1492, in the globe of Martin Behaim, the eastern and central group of islands were referred to as Insulae...
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Nuremberg, Behaim's home town, he lived and worked in Florence from 1480 to 1496. The Erdapfel (German: earth apple) produced by Martin Behaim in 1492 is...
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Mediterranean Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406 Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436–1507) Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic (1460–1551)...
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technology, including Pedro Nunes, João de Castro, Abraham Zacuto, and Martin Behaim. Cartographers Pedro Reinel, Lopo Homem, Estêvão Gomes, and Diogo Ribeiro...
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Samuel Purchas claiming that it was adapted for marine navigation by Martin Behaim, a mariner not considered a trustworthy source by some historians[who...
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Henry the Navigator. His memoirs were dictated late in his life to Martin Behaim. They are an invaluable (if sometimes inconsistent) account of the Portuguese...
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Paris Catalan Atlas, c. 1375 by Abraham Cresques Erdapfel (c. 1490) by Martin Behaim Arca Noë (1675) by Athanasius Kircher 1749 etching in The Universal...
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farther and farther east to the fringes of the known world. By the time Martin Behaim created his Erdapfel globe in 1492, the islands were thought to be near...
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depiction of the Arctic region on many maps, one of the earliest being Martin Behaim's 1492 globe. By the late 16th century, even Cnoyen's text was missing...
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Thomas is buried". "Egrisilla" appears on the globe made in Nuremberg by Martin Behaim in 1492, where it appears on the southernmost part of the peninsula...
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the New World. Munich: Prestel. pp. 44–45. ISBN 3791312324. Non-English MARTÍN MERÁS, Luisa (2000). "La carta de Juan de la Cosa: interpretación e historia"...
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representation of the Earth since ancient times in the west until that of Martin Behaim in 1492. Additionally it could well be a representation of the entire...
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Enterline, James (May 2003). "Chapter 3: The Inventio Fortunatae and Martin Behaim". Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of America...
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January 1486 when Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão, possibly accompanied by Martin Behaim, landed at Cape Cross. However, for several centuries, European settlement...
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on the 1492 globe of Martin Behaim. The fact that Ptolemy did not represent an eastern coast of Asia made it admissible for Behaim to extend that continent...
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Cipangu described on the 1492 Martin Behaim globe...
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Comparison of Piri Reis's organization of the Caribbean (left) to the 1492 Martin Behaim globe's configuration of Asia (right)...
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