alleryWho made the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, the Erdapfel, in 1492?
AJohannes Schoner
BGerardus Mercator
CWillem Blaeu
DMartin Behaim
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Martin Behaim
1. The earliest extant terrestrial globe dates to 1492.
2. It was made by the German mapmaker Martin Behaim and is called the Erdapfel.
3. Waldseemuller made a globe in 1507 and Taqi ad-Din in the 1570s, so they fail.
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