"Behaim" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Behaim (crater).
Martin Behaim
Martin Behaim. Engraving from Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 2 by Justin Winsor
Born
6 October 1459 Nuremberg (Holy Roman Empire)
Died
29 July 1507 (aged 47) Lisbon (Kingdom of Portugal)
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 and cartographer. He served John II of Portugal as an adviser in matters of navigation and participated in a voyage to West Africa. He is now best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest known globe, which he produced for the Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1492.
MartinBehaim (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...
[ˈeːɐ̯tˌʔapfl̩] ) is a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by MartinBehaim from 1490 to 1492. The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial...
150 BC. The oldest surviving terrestrial globe is the Erdapfel, made by MartinBehaim in 1492. The oldest surviving celestial globe sits atop the Farnese...
Paris Catalan Atlas, c. 1375 by Abraham Cresques Erdapfel (c. 1490) by MartinBehaim Arca Noë (1675) by Athanasius Kircher 1749 etching in The Universal...
"Azores" used to identify the archipelago. By 1492, in the globe of MartinBehaim, the eastern and central group of islands were referred to as Insulae...
technology, including Pedro Nunes, João de Castro, Abraham Zacuto, and MartinBehaim. Cartographers Pedro Reinel, Lopo Homem, Estêvão Gomes, and Diogo Ribeiro...
Nuremberg, Behaim's home town, he lived and worked in Florence from 1480 to 1496. The Erdapfel (German: earth apple) produced by MartinBehaim in 1492 is...
told in various places. The principal source is an inscription on MartinBehaim's 1492 Nuremberg globe which reads (in English translation): In the year...
on Google Books). Handy Volume Atlas (1895; seventh edition, 1907) MartinBehaim. His Life and his Globe (1908) A Life's Work (1908) The New Census Physical...
Columbus' ship Santa María runs aground off Cap-Haïtien, and is lost. MartinBehaim constructs the first surviving globe of Earth, the Erdapfel. As Columbus...
Thomas is buried". "Egrisilla" appears on the globe made in Nuremberg by MartinBehaim in 1492, where it appears on the southernmost part of the peninsula...
Henry the Navigator. His memoirs were dictated late in his life to MartinBehaim. They are an invaluable (if sometimes inconsistent) account of the Portuguese...
January 1486 when Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão, possibly accompanied by MartinBehaim, landed at Cape Cross. However, for several centuries, European settlement...
patronising both national and foreign men, such as João Afonso de Aveiro and MartinBehaim, to further his goals. Portuguese explorers pushed south along the known...
Erdapfel of MartinBehaim, made in Nuremberg in 1492. On the right-hand side of his world map Waldseemüller indicated the Ptolemy/Behaim conception included...
representation of the Earth since ancient times in the west until that of MartinBehaim in 1492. Additionally it could well be a representation of the entire...
farther and farther east to the fringes of the known world. By the time MartinBehaim created his Erdapfel globe in 1492, the islands were thought to be near...
Schoener developed his globe from the globe made by MartinBehaim in Nuremberg in 1492. On Behaim's globe, India potalis is located south of the Equator...
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"...
depiction of the Arctic region on many maps, one of the earliest being MartinBehaim's 1492 globe. By the late 16th century, even Cnoyen's text was missing...
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