was nameless on the Lenox Globe. This island has a mountain range which is aligned for much of its length along a meridian. Several rivers flow to the East from this mountain range into the unnamed Indian Ocean. It cannot be excluded that the horologist Jean Coudray may have had access to the Cosmographiae Introductio of Martin Waldseemüller. But there is no evidence for such a substantiation be it cartographic, bibliographical, orthographic or toponymic. Since the name "America" is missing from the Lenox Globe, although there are already three toponyms on the Latin American Landmass of the Lenox, the French clockmaker may have chosen a left-over empty space that is even more western for him. Due to the lack of space on the small globe this large unknown, anonymous and "empty" island seems to have come in handy for him during the continuous mental production work he updated and added the phrase in Latin "recently discovered America". Jean Coudray was aware of the naming of America but not about its precise cartographic location, which was not available in the contemporary source, the printed woodcut of the "Globus Mundi": Declaratio sive descriptio mundi et totius orbis" by Johannes Adelphus dating from 1509. On a Ptolemaic land bridge between Africa and Asia, printed on a world map of Gregor Reisch in the Woodcut publication dating from 1503 in Basel with the title Margaretha Filosophica it states in Latin translated here into English: "Here is not land but sea, in which there are islands of remarkable size unknown to Ptolemy." The specific location of this phrase and its content "islands of remarkable size" are in the South Indian Ocean, where the horologist put AMERICA NOVITER REPERTA. See also Collegium Novum Erdapfel of Martin Behaim, made in Nuremberg in 1492 Ostrich Egg Globe References 1510 works 16th-century maps and globes Jagiellonian University Science and technology in Poland History of Poland during the Jagiellonian dynasty