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William Janszoon Blaeu was a prominent Dutch cartographer active during the 17th century. He established a renowned publishing house specializing in maps and geographical works. His most significant contribution is the Atlas Maior, a large-scale atlas published in 1665 that offered detailed depictio...

Martin Behaim was a German textile merchant and navigator best known for creating the Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. Constructed between 1490 and 1492 in his hometown of Nuremberg, the globe predates the European awareness of the New World following Christopher Columbus's voyages....

Self-titled debut studio album by Japanese pop group globe, released in 1996 and produced by Tetsuya Komuro, featuring vocalist KEIKO and rapper Marc Panther.

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1600-1678) was an Italian cartographer during the early modern period. He is primarily known for his ambitious creation of two enormous terrestrial globes commissioned by Louis XIV of France. These detailed representations of the world, incorporating extensive geographical...

Johann Schöner was a German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, instrument maker, and printer active during the Renaissance. He produced influential terrestrial and celestial globes, including a printed globe made in 1515 that incorporated contemporary European ideas about recently reported lan...

Petrus Plancius (1552–1622) was a Dutch Reformed clergyman, astronomer, and cartographer who played a crucial role in early modern European exploration. He was a founding member of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and provided the organization with specialized navigational maps, globes, and sailin...

Gemma Frisius (1508–1555) was a Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer who made significant contributions to the fields of navigation and geography. He is best known for being the first to propose the principle of triangulation for surveying and mapmaking in his 1533 pamphlet. As a scienti...

'Relation' is the second studio album by the Japanese pop group globe, released in 1997. The group consisted of producer and keyboardist Tetsuya Komuro, vocalist KEIKO, and rapper MARC, and was one of Japan's best-selling musical acts during the late 1990s. The album followed globe's self-titled deb...

Caspar Vopel was a 16th-century German mathematician and cartographer from Cologne who created detailed celestial and terrestrial globes and printed maps. Working during the Renaissance period of geographic discovery, Vopel's maps often featured the latest geographical knowledge of his time, includi...

Arnold van Langren, also known as Arnold Florent van Langren, was a Dutch cartographer, instrument maker, and globe maker active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Sources associate him with Amsterdam and with maps and engraved charts of regions including the Americas, the Africa...