Beautiful terrestrial globe from 1520

The beautiful earth globe from 1520 is the work of the pastor, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer and cosmographer Johannes Schöner . It builds on the worldview of Martin Waldseemüller . Schöner's globe production began with the Schöne terrestrial globe from 1515, preserved in two copies . While the latter are series globes, the beautiful earth globe from 1520 is a hand-painted unique specimen. Produced on behalf of the city of Nuremberg , it replaced the Behaim globe from 1492 in the Nuremberg town hall . Both world globes are among the very special cartographic treasures in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

The representation of the New World on the beautiful earth globe from 1520 is of particular importance. It is divided into five parts:

• Newfoundland , called Terra Corterealis
• North America as an island named Terra de Cuba and Parias
• the West Indies
• South America as a large island south of the Antilles named America vel Brasilia sive Papagalli Terra
• an Antarctic land area called Brasilia inferior

The Pacific Ocean is still weak, especially in its northern part. The island of Zipangri (= Japan ) and the East Asian islands are not far from North America.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany, The terrestrial globe of Martin Behaim and that of Johann Schöner from 1520 , Nuremberg 1842,
• Friedrich Wieser, Magalhaes-Strasse and Austral-Continent on the globes of Johannes Schoener , Innsbruck 1881.
• Konrad Kretschmer, The historical maps for the discovery of America , Berlin 1892, revised Reprint Frankfurt 1991, p. 35 and panel XI / 4; XIII.
• Alois Fauser, Older Earth and Sky Globes in Bavaria , Stuttgart 1964, p. 123f. and Fig. 3
• AMERICA. The early image of the new world . Exhibition catalog Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München 1992, p. 48 no. 66 and p. 145–160 with ill. 4
• Chet Van Duzer The Cartography, Geography and Hydrography of the Southern Ring Continent, 1515--1763 . In: Orbis Terrarum 8, 2002, 115-158.