What happened in the 1490s?
🌐 The First Globe (1492): Creation of the first terrestrial globe by Martin Behaim.
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Further Reading
- Erdapfel - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- Martin Behaim's Erdapfel, 1492 [facsimile globe gores] - CONTENTdm (uwm.edu)
- Behaim Globe 1492 – Mapping Globalization - Princeton University (princeton.edu)
- Behold the Erdapfel, the World's Oldest Surviving Globe (atlasobscura.com)
- Martin Behaim's "Erdapfel", the Oldest Surviving Terrestrial Globe (historyofinformation.com)
- Behaim Globe | GNM (gnm.de)
- The oldest surviving terrestrial globe - Daniel Crouch Rare Books (crouchrarebooks.com)