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    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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    [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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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