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The map carved on the globe is an extremely close, [1] if not identical, [2] match to the Hunt–Lenox Globe, a copper globe reliably dated to about 1510. The owner [ 2 ] of the Ostrich Egg Globe, Stefaan Missinne, claims that it was made in the early 16th century and is therefore the first globe ever to depict the New World .
A facsimile globe showing America was made by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507. Another "remarkably modern-looking" terrestrial globe of the Earth was constructed by Taqi al-Din at the Constantinople observatory of Taqi ad-Din during the 1570s. [11] The world's first seamless celestial globe was built by Mughal scientists under the patronage of ...
A general map of the world by Samuel Dunn, 1794, containing star chart, map of the Solar System, map of the Moon and other features along with Earth's both hemispheres. The Vertical Perspective projection was first used by the German map publisher Matthias Seutter in 1740.
The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...
In 1492, Martin Behaim, a German cartographer and advisor to the king John II of Portugal, made the oldest extant globe of the Earth. [20] In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map (Universalis Cosmographia) bearing the first use of the name "America."
Jagiellonian globe. The Jagiellonian globe, also known as the Globus Jagellonicus, is a mechanical armillary sphere made in France before 1510. It is an astronomical instrument and a universal clock tracking both local solar time and sidereal time. The central brass sphere is engraved with a map of Earth and contains the clock mechanism.
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Behaim-Globe, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, height 133 cm (52 in) Behaim’s Erdapfel Modern recreation of the gores of the Erdapfel Oceanic area described on the Martin Behaim globe. The Erdapfel ( German for 'earth apple'; pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʔapfl̩] ⓘ ) is a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by Martin ...