The World's Oldest Globe (1492): No Americas

The world's oldest surviving terrestrial globe, finished in 1492 before Columbus reached the Americas, shows Earth with a circumference of 29,000 km instead of 40,075 km (27% too small). The Americas aren't on it. The Atlantic flows into Asian waters. Behaim's Erdapfel pulled from Ptolemy, Marco Polo, and Portuguese explorers. Georg Glockendon hand-painted the original, which still sits in Nuremberg, Germany. This animation uses E.G. Ravenstein's 1908 facsimile. Read more: https://vividmaps.com/oldest-globe-1492-no-americas/ If you're looking for a globe, here are many options: https://vividmaps.com/globe/