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Behaim, Martin

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Behaim (or Boheim), Martin (1459–1506)

German navigator and geographer. In 1484 he accompanied the fleet of the Portuguese Diogo Cam on a journey of exploration along the West African coast. He became famous for his methods of finding the latitude at sea, for his maps, and for the globe which he bequeathed to his native city; but the errors later detected in his work have lessened his formerly great reputation.

He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and studied under Regiomontanus (Johann Muller).



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