Earliest geographical globe

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Martin Behaim (1436?-1506?) creates the earliest geographical globe, the Nuremburg (Nurnberg) globe, albeit with not the best information for his day.

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Editors. "Earliest geographical globe". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 May 2009
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=6070, accessed 24 May 2013.]