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De Costa noted a large, unnamed land mass depicted in the southern part of the Eastern Hemisphere on the Lenox Globe and suggested, “with extreme diffidence”, that this land represented Australia, misplaced to this location. If so, he said, “it would be necessary to conclude that, although misplaced
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recalled seeing the globe while dining with Hunt in 1870. Hunt was ambivalent about the globe, which he bought "for a song", and was allowing his children to toy with it. Stevens recognized its value and urged Hunt to store it in the
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The Lenox Globe is a hollow red copper globe without any green or black patina that measures ca. 112 millimetres (ca. 4.4 in) in diameter. The phrase
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The flat drawing of the globe which accompanied the early articles is reproduced as map 7 in Emerson D. Fite and Archibald Freeman's
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from the Ostrich Egg Globe "using a very specific and unusual technique" before the two halves of the egg globe were joined.
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In his translation of Da Costa's article, Gabriel Gravier adds that Marco Polo's Kingdom of Dagroian is in Java Minor, or
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as living in the Kingdom of "Dagroian". These people... feasted upon the dead and picked their bones (B.II. c.14,
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In this region , near the equatorial line, is seen "Hc Svnt Dracones", or here are the Dagroians, described by
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The New York Public Library provides high resolution scans of the globe on their website.
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in September 1879. Gabriel Gravier reprinted the article with additional comments in the
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upon the Lenox Globe, Australia was known to the geographers of that early period”.
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Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York, & the Formation of His Library
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The earliest known article on the globe was written by B. F. de Costa for the
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Stefaan Missinne, since 2012 the owner and investigator of the
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appears just below the equator on the eastern coast of
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The Portolan: Journal of the Washington Map Society
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Facsimile-Atlas to the Early History of Cartography
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Hunt-Lenox Globe

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Lenox Globe
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Erdapfel
Martin Behaim
Ostrich Egg Globe
New York Public Library
here are dragons

HIC SVNT DRACONES
Asia
Paris
Richard Morris Hunt
James Lenox
New York Public Library
Henry Stevens
Lenox Library
Julius Erasmus Hilgard
US National Geodetic Survey
Ostrich Egg Globe
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Marco Polo
Ramusio
Sumatra

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