I. OLD NUREMBERG ..5
II. THE BEHAIMS OF SCHWARZBACH ..5
III. EARLY YEARS, 1459-1476 ..7
IV. IN THE NETHERLANDS, 1476-1484 ..8
Martin Behaim at Mechlin, Martin Behaim at Antwerp, ..8;
A Supposed Visit to Lisbon, 1481 or 1483, A Dance at a Jew's Wedding, Departure from Antwerp, 1484, ..9.
Germans at Lisbon, ..10;
German Brotherhoods, Martin Behaim's Private Life, ..11.
VI. THE JUNTA DOS MATHEMATICOS ..12
João de Barros and the `Junta', ..12;
The Astronomical Expedition of José Vizinho, 1485, Behaim as an Astronomer, ..13;
The Astrolabe, ..15;
The Meteoroscope, The Cross-Staff, ..16;
The Quadrant, The Nocturnal, Sundials, ..17;
The Ephemerides, 18.
VII. BEHAIM'S AFRICAN VOYAGE, 1484-1485 ..20
Portuguese Voyages of Discovery, 1472-82, ..20;
Diogo Cão's First Voyage, 1482-84, Diogo Cão's Second Voyage, 1485-86, ..21;
The Voyage of Bartholomeu Dias, 1487-88, ..22;
Minor Expeditions, João d'Aveiro and Benin, 1484-85, ..23.
Behaim's Own Accounts of his Voyage: The Story as told on the Globe, The Story as told in the `Liber chronicorum,' ..24;
A Summary of the two Accounts, Behaim's Account Examined, Grains of Paradise, Pepper and Cinnamon, ..25.
The Globe and Contemporary Maps, ..26;
Lower Guinea, The Southern Extremity of Africa, Upper Guinea, ..27;
The Guinea Islands, Insula Martini - Anno bom, ..28.
Conclusion, ..29.
VIII. BEHAIM'S KNIGHTHOOD, 1485 ..30
XI. BEHAIM AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA ..39
XII. A VISIT TO NUREMBERG, 1490-1493 ..41
Object of the Visit, Business Transactions, ..41;
Behaim's Globe, ..42;
Martin Behaim's Family Relations, ..42.
XIII. A MISSION TO FLANDERS, 1493 ..43
Flanders in 1493, Perkin Warbeck, ..43;
Behaim's Account of his Mission, D. Jorge, the son of King John II., ..44;
Maximilian, the King of the Romans, and his son Philip, Conclusion, ..45.
XIV. FAYAL AND THE AZORES ..46
The discovery of the Azores, Nomenclature of the Azores, ..46;
The Colonization of the Azores, ..47;
The Hurters of Flanders, Joz d'Utra (Josse van Hurter) as Capitão donatorio, ..48;
The Privileges of a "Captain donatory" or Governor, The Peopling of Fayal, Joz d'Utra and his descendants, ..49;
Martin Behaim in Fayal and his family, A projected Voyage of Discovery, 1486, Martin Behaim's Prophecies, ..50.
Wolf Behaim's Death at Lisbon, The Death of Martin Behaim, ..51;
Memorials at Nuremberg, The Monument of Behaim, ..52.
XVI. MARTIN BEHAIM THE YOUNGER, 1489-1520 ..53
Young Martin charged with Manslaughter, ..53;
A proposed Visit to Nuremberg, Young Martin at Nuremberg, ..54;
Law Proceedings, Sent to a Schoolmaster, ..55;
Return to Portugal, ..56.
XVII. THE HISTORY OF THE GLOBE ..57
Contemporary Globes, ..57;
George Holzschuher's Suggestion, Behaim's Qualifications, The Manufacture of the Globe, ..58;
Repairs of the Globe, A General Description, ..59.
XVIII. FACSIMILES OF BEHAIM'S GLOBE ..60
Facsimiles in Solido, ..60;
Pseudo-Facsimiles in Plano, ..61;
My own "Facsimile", ..62.
XIX. THE SOURCES OF BEHAIM'S GLOBE ..62
Ptolemy, Isidor of Seville, ..62;
Marco Polo, ..63;
His route plotted and result with reference to the supposed extent of the habitable world, ..64;
Sir John Mandeville, Portolano Charts, ..65;
Toscanelli, Portuguese Sources, ..66;
The islands of the Atlantic as delineated by Behaim and by Portuguese Pilots, A Map of Western Africa from Materials available in 1492, ..68;
Miscellaneous Sources, Sources not traced, ..69;
Conclusion, ..70.
XX. NOMENCLATURE OF THE GLOBE AND COMMENTARY ..71
How the Town Council of Nürnberg ordered the Globe to be Made, The Authorities consulted, The Story of Behaim's Voyage, ..71;
Equator, Parallels and Ecliptic, The Meridian, ..72;
The Artificial Horizon, ..73.
The Ocean, ..73.
The Islands of the Atlantic, Iceland, British Isles, ..74;
Insula de Brazil, The Azores, ..75;
Madeira, Canary lslands, Cape Verde Islands, ..76;
Antilia, St. Brandan's Island, ..77.
Continental Europe, Scandinavia, ..77;
North-Eastern Europe, Hungary and the Lower Danube, Germany, ..78;
France, Portugal, Castile and Aragon, Italy, ..79;
The Balkan Peninsula, Little Tartary, ..80.
Asia: Asia Minor, Armenia, Syria, ..81;
Babylonia, Arabia, Persia, ..82;
India Intra Gangem, ..83;
India Extra Gangem, The Country of the Sinae, India, ..84;
Further India, ..85;
The Indian Ocean and its Islands, Taprobana, Ceylon, ..86;
Java Minor, Java Major, Pentan, ..87;
Nekuran, Angaman, Islands of the Satyrs, Candyn, The Magnetic Island, ..88;
Silver, Gold and Pearl Islands, Cipangu, The Indian Spice Trade, ..89.
Inner Asia: Western Turkistan, Tarim (Eastern Turkistan), ..90;
Tartary, ..91;
Cathai, Mangi, ..92.
Ophir and Havilah, St. Thomas, ..94;
Appolonius of Tyre, The Three Holy Kings and
Prester John, ..95;
The Romance of Alexander, ..96.
Africa: Ptolemaic Nomenclature, ..96;
Egypt, ..97;
Barca and Tripoli, Tunis, Buja, Oran and Tlemsen, Fez and Morocco, The West Coast of the Sahara, ..98;
Senegambia, Upper Guinea, ..99;
Benin, The Guinea Islands, ..100;
Inner Guinea, ..101;
The Sahara, Abyssinia and Nubia, Lower Guinea, ..102;
River Congo to the Cape, Behaim's "Furthest," ..103;
Inner Tropical South Africa, Zanzibar, ..104;
Madagascar, Scotra, ..105.
Letters of Martin Behaim to his Uncle Leonhard
I. Mechlin, April 17, 1477 (Letter 1 to Leonhard) ..107
II. Mechlin, October 13, 1477 (with Facsimile) (Letter 2 to Leonhard) ..107 (Facsimile)
III. Frankfurt, September 17, 1478 (Letter 3 to Leonhard) ..108
IV. Antwerp, June 8, 1479 (Letter 4 to Leonhard) ..109
V. Legal Documents Referring to a Dance at a Jew's Wedding, 1483 (Legal Documents Dance) ..110
VI. Legal Documents Concerning Bonds Signed by Behaim at Antwerp,
May 4, 1484 (Legal Documents Bonds) ..110
VII. Statement of Expenses Incurred in the Manufacture of the Globe, 1492
(Globe Expenses) ..111
VIII. Dr. H. Schedel's Remarks on the Globe
(Schedel) ..112
IX. Letter of Dr. H. Monetarius to King John of Portugal, July 14, 1493, (Letter to King John) ..113
X. Martin Behaim to his Cousin Michael, March 11, 1494
(Letter to Michael) ..113
XI. Valentin Ferdinand's Account of Fayal and Pico
(Fayal and Pico) ..114
XII. Two Letters Adressed by the Town Council of Nuremberg to King
Manuel of Portugal, June 7, 1518, and May 12, 1521
(Letters to King Manuel) ..115
XIII. Letter of Albrecht Dürer to Michael Behaim (Letter of Dürer) ..116
