ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Portrait of Martin Behaim. (From a painting in the possession of the family)

2. The arms of Behaim. (From a block engraved by Albrecht Dürer in the possession of Freiherr von Behaim)

3. The house in which Behaim was born. (From a photograph by F. Schmidt)

4. Behaim's monument at Nuremberg. (From a photograph by F. Schmidt)

5. The Globe at Nuremberg in 1905. (From a photograph taken by the kind permission of Freiherr von Behaim in 1905)

6. Facsimile of a letter written by Martin Behaim, dated Mechlin, October 13th, 1477, now in the family archives at Nuremberg

7. The Arms of Portugal in 1484

[7. The Arms of Portugal in 1484] and 1485

8. The Padrão of Cape Cross, 1485

9. Rock inscriptions on the Lower Congo relating to Cão's voyage of 1485-1486

10-17. Illustrations of astronomical instruments (astrolabes, quadrant, cross-staff, back-staff, sundials, etc.)

Astrolabe of Regiomontanus

Mariner's Astrolabe

Meteoroscope

Cross-Staff (Jakobsstab)

Back-Staff (Winkelmesser)

Quadrant

Horizontal Sundial (1451)

Universal Equinoctial Sundial

COLOURED MAPS

1. The World as known to Christian Europe in 1492

2. The Sources of Behaim's Globe, with six insets
Insets:
(1) and (2): Scandinavia and Head streams of the Nile, from the Ulm edition of Ptolemy, 1482;
(3) Antilia according to Gracioso Benincasa, 1488;
(4) Cipangu according to Behaim, 1492;
(5) and (6) Eastern Asia and Central Africa, according to Waldseemüller, 1507.