Article
Spanish
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oai:doaj.org/article:0a8be1cbaf324b0f808821eb6996c085>
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DOI: <
10.33776/erebea.v10i0.5030>
Abstract
Martin Behaim’s famous landmark balloon in Nuremberg in 1492 is not the only medieval witness of this particular form of representation of the Earth. When looking at the first testimonies, we realise that the function and content of these balloons change significantly: they stop illustrating the effects of renstial phenomena and are limited to the representation of the Earth’s surface. Hence the questions: how and why do we move from the two-dimensional representation of MAPPAE mundi to three-dimensional representation in the 15th century? And how and why did the change in content take place in the three-dimensional representations? The adaptation of the ptolemaic image to the particular shape of a balloon, and its enrichment with data on land trips in Asia and maritime exploration in Africa, have emerged before Behaim in Germanic circles that remain unfamiliar.