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Martin Behaim
| German scientist, merchant and navigator Date of Birth: Country: Germany |
Content:
- Biography
- Early Life and Career
- Life in Portugal and Marriage
- The Behaim Globe
- Later Life
Biography
Martin Behaim was a German scientist, merchant, and explorer who served the Portuguese for a long time.
He is known as the creator of the oldest surviving globe.
Early Life and Career
Behaim was born in the wealthy merchant family in the free city of Nuremberg, Franconia.
Mapa de martin behaim biography
His father traded with Venice and was elected to the city senate. From a young age, Martin was involved in his father's business. After his father's death in , he worked with his uncle Leonard and Jorius van Dorpp, a cloth merchant from Mechelen.
He also attended the Frankfurt fair. In , Behaim moved to Antwerp, where he worked in a dyeing workshop and learned arithmetic. There are reports that he studied under Johann Müller, a renowned astronomer and mathematician of the time.