mapy-i-podróże: Ostrich Egg Globe

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The Ostrich Egg Globe is a hollow terrestrial globe purportedly made from the conjoined lower halves of two ostrich eggs. The map carved on the globe is an extremely close, if not identical, match to the Hunt–Lenox Globe, a copper globe reliably dated to about 1510. The owner of the Ostrich Egg Globe, Stefaan Missinne, claims that it was made in the early 16th century and would therefore be the first globe ever to depict the New World. Various researchers do not support Missinne's claims, pointing to X-ray images of the globe and mistakes around the globe's equator.

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The "New World" (Latin: Mundus novus) is an early modern term describing the majority of lands in the Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas, and sometimes Oceania. It was introduced in the early 16th century, during Europe's Age of Discovery, by Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who published the pamphlet Mundus novus, presenting his conclusion that the lands discovered west of the Atlantic Ocean (soon called America after Amerigo's name) constituted new continents. This realization expanded the geographical horizon of earlier European geographers, who had thought that the world included only Africa, Asia, and Europe, which became collectively known as the "Old World".

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The Hunt–Lenox Globe or Lenox Globe, dating from about 1508, is the second-oldest known terrestrial globe after the Erdapfel of Martin Behaim (1492) or, according to a fringe theory, the third-oldest after the Erdapfel and the Ostrich Egg Globe (claimed 1504). The Hunt-Lenox Globe is housed by the Rare Book Division of the New York Public Library. It is notable as the only known example of an historical map actually using the phrase HC SVNT DRACONES (Latin, "here are dragons").