Johannes Schöner globe
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German astronomer and cartographer Johannes Schöner (1477-1547) made some of the oldest globes.
The Johannes Schöner Globe (1515) was made in 1515.
Referring to globes of the world, Rafael Candel Vila, Professor of Cosmological Science and engineer at the University of Strasbourg [Enciclopedia Labor, Barcelona, 1979, vol. 4, p. 39] says: “Among the most famous is one made by Johann Schönner in 1515, which figured the Magellan Strait before it was discovered”. Albert Ronsin [Découverte et baptême de l’Amerique, Jarville-La Malgrange, 1992, p. 150] also mentions the subject, that fact is, the Magellan Strait can be found on the globe before its “official discovery”.
The Johannes Schöner Globe (1520) was made in 1520.
Albert Ronsin also mentions that the globe also shows the Antarctic continent, which had not been explored at that date either. Albert Ronsin, honorary curator of the Bibliotèque et de Musée de Saint-Dié des Vosges, says: “Jean Schönner: Globe Terrestre (1520), disciple de Waldseemüller […] et dessine un continent anatarctique nommé Brasilia inférieur séparé de l’Amérique du sud par un détroit alors inconnu puisque le résultat du voyage de Magellan n’est pas encore achevé”. That is, “Johann Schönner: globe of the world (1520), disciple of Waldseemüller […] and draws an Antarctic continent, called lower Brasilia separated from South America by a strait unknown at that time as the results of Magellan’s voyage were still not complete”.
The Johannes Schöner's Weimer Globe (1533) was made in 1533.
It was made in 1533. Shows North America as part of Asia, also shows Antarctica.
See also
External links
- [The Johann Schönner globe of the world of 1520] at Nito Verdera's site.
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