Fast forward a couple hundred years to 1492. The year of ... the year the oldest extant globe was made. It was produced by German geographer and explorer Martin Behaim, and in proper reflection ...

But had I seen the globe produced by Martin Behaim at the end of the 15th century ... which has been dated somewhere between 1490 and 1492, the Italian-born Christopher Columbus became the ...

But had I seen the globe produced by Martin Behaim at the end of the 15th century, I might have noticed a glaring absence: The continents of the Americas and Australia are nowhere to be seen ...