The Da Vinci Globe, dated 1504, is the oldest known globe to show the New World.

[elleng]

Engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined lower halves of ostrich eggs.

If the first map to represent the American continent is that of Juan de la Cosa, made in the year 1500, and the first in which the name America appears to identify it is the so-called Universalis Cosmographia of Martin Waldseemüller, of 1507, the first globe that showed the New World >>>

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[Ocelot II]

1. Where is it? Can't find on the linked page.

[elleng]

2. Dunno

The globe was offered for sale in 2012 at the London Map Fair held at the Royal Geographical Society.[1] Its similarity to the Lenox Globe was confirmed by the former president of the Coronelli Society, Professor Rudolf Schmidt, and confirmed by art expert Archduke Dr. Géza von Habsburg in 2013.[3]: 11, 15 

The owner of the globe, Stefaan Missinne, has written a book that argues that the globe was made by Leonardo da Vinci,[2] citing writings by Leonardo indicating a similar approach to making globe gores.[3]: 19 [a] Cartographer Wouter Bracke states that Missine's book should be considered "a report on the author's research into the globe and [not] a final scientific and academic publication", and that Cambridge Scholars Publishing's lack of editorial board "clearly failed to guide the author in the preparation of his publication". Ultimately, Bracke states that more research is needed to conclude the question of the globe's age and provenance.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_Egg_Globe

[Cerridwen]

3. Try these links for pictures:

https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/the-oldest-known-globe-to-depict-the-new-world-was-engraved-on-an-ostrich-egg.html


https://artifactsmuseumhistory.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-da-vinci-globe-dated-1504-oldest.html

[Ocelot II]

4. Thanks.

[elleng]

6. Thanks

[SCantiGOP]

5. Fascinating, thanks for posting

There was a book in the 70s that claimed that aliens had visited Earth and were responsible for the pyramids and other things.
One supporting fact was that DaVinci was just too advanced and talented to have been a 15th century human. I don’t actually believe that, but the man was a genius-level freak of nature.