Martin Behaim
Martin Behaim , cosmographer and German navigator, born with Nuremberg in 1459, died in 1506
It put at the service Portugal, and accompanied in 1484 and 1485 Diego Cam, in a voyage of discovered around the Africa.
Of return to Nuremberg (1492), it made a terrestrial sphere which represented the state of knowledge at the time. Christoph Gottlieb von Murr gave the description of the sphere of Behaim (translated into French by Hendrik Jansen, following the voyage of Antonio Pigafetta, Paris, 1802).
Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany, of Nuremberg, gave its Vie , Leipzig, 1852.
It was claimed, but wrongly that Behaim had been informed of the Nouveau World before Christophe Colomb.
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