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poflefs this map of the world, have likewife pofiVffion of the above-mentioned volume,and that the two be never feparate the one from the other.” This map of the worldis no longer to be found among the manufcripts of the library of Nuremberg , and there*s ftrong reafon to conclude that it has long ago been loft.
description of the terrestrial globe of martin behaim.
_ The terreftrial globe of Martin Behaim is one foot eight inches, Paris meafure, indiameter, and is fupported on a ftand of iron of fome height, having three branches.It is preferved among the archives of the family of Behaim .
The meredian is of iron, but the horizon of brafs ; this latter is of more recent form-ation, (probably made by John Werner,) as feetns to be indicated by the infcription onthe border, which is, “Anno Domini, 1510, die Novembris .”
The countries belonging to different powers are marked on this globe by flags bearingtheir arms. Thefe flags, as well as the dwellings and figures of the inhabitants of therefpective countries, are painted with great nicety. The names of places are markedjn red and yellow ink. The globe is covered with black vellum. Every thing upon itis indicated according to the defcriptions of Marco Polo and Mandeville, and exactlyafter the manner conceived by Colon; that is to fay, that Cipango, or Japan , is thatcountry which ftretches fartheft towards the eaft ; this was the caufe that, on histaking difcovery of America , he miftook that continent for a part of Afia; that hegave it the name of the Weft-Indies ; and that he preferved to the clofe of life the pro-ject of finding a route to the Eaft-Indies by this courfe ; a project conceived alfo byCortez # , at the very time Magellan had already paffed the famous ftrait which bears hisDame into the South Sea, and difcovered there the Philippine Iflands: for formerlyNothing in this quarter was thought of but Cipango and Cathay. If when Colon dif-covered the ifland Guanahani, which is one of the Lucayes, he had continued his courfel D a diredt line, he would infallibly have entered the Gulf of Mexico . Thus alfo hefailed of difcovering, in 1502, on his fourth voyage, the country of Yucatan , and the^hole coaft of the Mexican Gulf , from which he was but thirty leagues diftantf.
Among the archives of the family of Behaim is a toterably exact and pretty wellexecuted drawing of this globe, on two flieets of vellum.
At the lower part of the globe, near the antarftic pole, in a circle of fe\ r en inchesdiameter, is painted the eagle of Nuremberg , and with it the head of a young madonna,•“elow this, in the middle, are the arms of Nutzel; on the right of the eagle, thofe oft he families Volkamer and Behaim ; and on the left thofe of the families of Grolanda Dd Holzfcheuer. Round thefe paintings, on five lines, is inferibed as follows : “ AtDc requeft and order of the wife and venerable magiftrates of the noble imperial city0 . Nuremberg , at prefent in office, Gabriel Notzel, P. Volkamer, and Nicolas Groland,ms globe was defigned and executed, from the difeoveries and indications of the Caval-er ° Martin Behaim , a man well verfed in the cofmographic art, and one who has failed? Ver more than a third of the globe. The whole remainder, col letted with attentionr °m the works of Ptolomey, Pliny, Strabo, and Marco Polo , and placed, the feas, as
as the different lands,according to their form and pofition, in purfuance to the order^ the before-mentioned magiftrates delivered to George Holzfchuer, who affifted inle e xecution of this globe in 1492 5 which globe was left by the faid Martin Behaim 0 the city of Nuremberg , as a token of remembrance and homage, previous to his
f Herrera, lib. v. cap. y.3 E 2
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