According to Wieser (_Magalhâes-Strasse_, p. 19) this globe, which exists in copies at Weimar (of which Wieser gives the above sketch from Jomard’s fac-simile of the one at Frankfort, but with some particulars added from that at Weimar) and at Frankfort (which is figured in Jomard), was made to accompany Schöner’s _Luculentissima quædam terræ totius descriptio_, printed in 1515. Cf. Harrisse, _Notes on Columbus_, p. 179, and _Bibl. Amer. Vet._, nos. 80, 81; Murphy, no. 2,233. Copies of Schöner’s _Luculentissima_, etc., are in the Harvard College, Carter-Brown, and Lenox libraries. In 1523 Schöner printed another tract, _De nuper sub Castiliæ, ac Portugaliæ regibus serenissimis repertis insulis ac regionibus_, descriptive of his globe, which is extremely rare. Wieser reports copies in the great libraries of Vienna and London only. Varnhagen reprinted it from the Vienna copy, at St. Petersburg in 1872 (forty copies only), under the designation, _Réimpression fidèle d’une lettre de Jean Schöner, à propos de son globe, écrite en 1523_. The Latin is given in Wieser’s _Magalhâes-Strasse_, p. 118. Johann Schoner or Schöner (for the spelling varies) was born in 1477, and died in 1547. The testimony of this globe to an early knowledge of the straits afterward made known by Magellan is examined on a later page. The notions which long prevailed respecting a large Antarctic continent are traced in Wieser’s _Magalhâes-Strasse_, p. 59, and in Santarem, _Histoire de la cartographie_, ii. 277. Cf. on the copy at Frankfort,—Vol. III. p. 215, of the present _History_; Kohl’s _General-Karten von Amerika_, p. 33, and his _Discovery of Maine_, p. 159; _Encyclopædia Britannica_, x. 681; Von Richthofen’s _China_, p. 641; _Journal_ of the Royal Geographical Society, xviii. 45. On the copy at Weimar, see Humboldt, _Examen critique_, and his Introduction to Ghillany’s _Ritter Behaim_.] [Illustration: SCHÖNER, 1520. This globe, which has been distinctively known as Schöner’s globe, is preserved at Nuremberg. There are representations of it in Santarem, Lelewel, Wieser, Ghillany’s _Behaim_, Kohl’s _Geschichte der Entdeckungsreisen zur Magellan’s-Strasse_ (Berlin, 1877), p. 8; H. H. Bancroft’s _Central America_, i. 137; and in _Harper’s Magazine_, February, 1871, and December, 1882, p. 731. The earliest engraving appeared in the _Jahresbericht der technischen Anstalten in Nürnberg für 1842_, accompanied by a paper by Dr. Ghillany; and the same writer reproduced it in his _Erdglobus des Behaim und der des Schöner_ (1842). The globe is signed: “Perfecit eum Bambergæ 1520, Joh. Schönerus.” Cf. Von Murr, _Memorabilia bibliothecarum Noribergensium_ (1786), i. 5; Humboldt, _Examen critique_, ii. 28; Winsor’s _Bibliography of Ptolemy_ sub anno 1522; and Vol. III. p. 214, of the present _History_.]