
The Behaim Globe (Erdapfel)
1492-1494 (commissioned by the Nuremberg city council from 1490; the brass horizon ring was added around 1510) - Two clay-moulded hemispheres laminated in linen, reinforced with wood, then overlaid with parchment and paper gores in tempera paint; wrought-iron meridian stand; engraved and punched brass horizon ring