[DOC] [TLE] Martin Behaim - Wikipedia [PAR] Martin Behaim (6 October 1459  29 July 1507), also known as Martin von 
Behaim and by ... Behaim was born in Nuremberg, according to one source, 
about 1436; other .... Martin Behaim constructed his familiar terrestrial globe 
between 1491 and 1493, ... Western Africa is incorrect, though technology at the 
time made such... [DOC] [TLE] Geography (Ptolemy) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Geography also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the 
Cosmographia, is a ... The Geography consists of three sections, divided among 
8 books. ... Maps based on scientific principles had been made in Europe since 
the time of .... additions to the Ptolemaic map shown on the 1492 globe of Martin 
Behaim. [DOC] [TLE] 1 TITLE: Behaim Globe DATE: 1492 AUTHOR: Martin Behaim [PAR] DESCRIPTION: It was Martin Behaim of Nuremberg (1459-1507), who, in so far 
as ... Toscanelli, when writing his famous ... king, presumably for his services, and 
made his home for some years on the ... Portuguese and other discoveries 
should be represented. ..... globe is indebted to the greatest among medieval 
travelers. [DOC] [TLE] Saudi Aramco World : Al-Idrisi And Roger's Book [PAR] Al-Idrisi's writings tell us less about his own character and personality than about 
... of the 12th century, was an anomaly among Christian monarchs of his time. .... 
Arab geographers had corrected some of the errors of Ptolemy and other .... 
Using a globe prepared by a German cartographer named Martin Behaim
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credible ... In Portugal he was favored among the mathematicians of King John 
II's court. ... on the globe, one being latitudinal and representing the equator; the 
other ... in the second century by Ptolemy, who based his work on the knowledge 
of the... [DOC] [TLE] Mapping the New World - Travel To Eat [PAR] Sep 4, 2012 ... A number of handdrawn copies were made in Italy throughout the early ... Many 
place?names on the map were derived from Marco Polo's writings. ... It was 
Martin Behaim of Nuremberg (1459-1507), who, in so far as we have ... the 
legends of his globe that his work is based upon Ptolemy's Cosmography,... [DOC] [TLE] Semantic Annotation for Medieval Cartography - ICOM [PAR] The Behaim Globe of 1492 is the oldest extant globe of the earth. ... merchant 
and seafarer MARTIN BEHAIM, born in 1459, was an offspring of a noble .... In 
contrast to the land-based Ptolemaic maps, portulans are constructed according 
to ..... relative positions among each other, but also direction, orientation, and 
distance. [DOC] [TLE] Eratosthenes | Atlantis in The Java Sea [PAR] Sep 26, 2015 ... In Ptolemy's world map he identifies many modern geographic ... after a 
misunderstanding by the Italian traveller Nicolo di Conti. ... and on Fra Mauro's 
Planisphere and Martin Behaim's Globe. .... A historian with geographic leanings, 
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writings like Ptolemy's Geographia .... In other cases such objects will remain 
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..... been drawn especially from the Italian traveler Nicolo Conti and from Marco 
Polo. .... Behaim tells us that his map was based upon Ptolemy, upon the travels 
of ... Africa is interestingly drawn, exhibiting among other features the last vestige 
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Question: Martin Behaim made a globe based on the writings of Ptolemy & this Italian traveler among others
Answer: Marco Polo