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jan 1, 1492 - Martin Behaim constructed a globe.

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Columbus saw this globe which helped him plot the route to China. The circumference of Earth was as wrong as Ptolemy's guess of Earth's circumference.

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jan 1, 1492
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~ 534 years ago

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