about 60 miles away, much as if one were sailing eastward through the Straits of Gibraltar or Seville and Barbary or Morocco in Africa, as our Globe shows toward the Antarctic Pole. Further, the distance is only moderate from this Region of Brazil to Malacca, where St. Thomas was crowned with martyrdom. On this scrap of information, united with the concept of the Antipodes inherited from Graeco-Roman antiquity, Schöner constructed his representation of the southern continent. His strait served as inspiration for Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition to reach the Moluccas by a westward route. He took Magellan’s discovery of Tierra del Fuego in 1520 as further confirmation of its existence, and on his globes of 1523 and 1533 he described it as TERRA AVSTRALIS RECENTER INVENTA SED NONDUM PLENE COGNITA(“Terra Australis, recently discovered but not yet fully known”). It was taken up by his followers, the French cosmographer Oronce Fine in his world map of 1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerard Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570. Schöner's concepts influenced the Dieppe maps makers, notably in their representation of Jave la Grande''. Subsequent generations of map-makers and geographic theorists continued to elaborate the image of a vast and wealthy Terra Australis to tempt the cupidity of merchants and statesmen. See also Johannes Schöner Erdapfel Hunt–Lenox Globe Globus Jagellonicus Ancient world maps World map Timeline of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact Martin Waldseemüller Jave la Grande Guillaume Postel, a French polymath References External links The Johann Schönner globe of the world of 1520 at Nito Verdera's site. Luculentissima quaedam terrae totius descriptio: cum multis vtilissimis cosmographiæ iniciis. Noribergæ, Impressum im excusoria officina I. Stuchssen, 1515. From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress 16th-century maps and globes Historic maps of the world 1515 works de:Johannes Schöner