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CONTENTS

Introduction .

THE LIFE.

I. Old Nuremberg
II. The Behaims of Schwarzbach
HI. Early Years, 1459-1476 .
IV. In the Netherlands, 1476-1484

Martin Behaim at Mechlin, Martin Behaim at Antwerp, 8; A Supposed Visit to Lisbon, 1481
or 1483, A Dance at a Jew's Wedding, Departure from Antwerp, 1484, 9.

V. Behaim in Portugal.............

Germans at Lisbon, 10; German Brotherhoods, Martin Behaim's Private Life, 11.

VI. The Junta dos Mathematicos . . . . . . . . ...

Joao de Barros and the 'Junta,' 12; The Astronomical Expedition of Jose Vizinho, 1485,
Behaim as an Astronomer, 13; The Astrolabe, 15; The Meteoroscope, The Cross-Staff, 16;
The Quadrant, The Nocturnal, Sundials, 17 ; The Ephemerides, 18.

VII. Behaim's African Voyage, 1484-1485 . .........

Portuguese Voyages of Discovery, 1472-82, 20; Diogo Cao's First Voyage, 1482-84, Diogo

Cao's Second Voyage, 1485-86, 21 ; The Voyage of Bartholomeu Dias, 1487-88, 22; Minor

Expeditions, Joao d'Aveiro and Benin, 1484-85, 23.
Behaim's Own Accounts of his Voyage: The Story as told on the Globe, The Story as told in

the' Liber chronicorum,' 24 ; A Summary of the two Accounts, Behaim's Account Examined.

Grains of Paradise, Pepper and Cinnamon, 25.
The Globe and Contemporary Maps, 26; Lower Guinea, The Southern Extremity of Africa,

Upper Guinea, 27; The Guinea Islands, Insula Martini—Anno bom, 28.
Conclusion, 29.

VIII. Behaim's Knighthood, 1485

IX. Behaim and Columbus

X. Behaim and Magellan .

XI. Behaim and the Discovery of America

XII. A Visit to Nuremberg, 1490-1493 .

Object of the Visit, Business Transactions, 41; Behaim's Globe, 42 ; Martin Behaim's Family
Relations, 42.

XIII. A Mission to Flanders, 1493 ............

Flanders in 1498, Perkin Warbeck, 43 ; Behaim's Account of his Mission, D. Jorge, the son of
King John II., 44 ; Maximilian, the King of the Romans, and his son Philip, Conclusion, 45.

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