degrees between the westernmost point of Europe, Cape St. Vincent in Portugal and Cattigara on the easternmost point of Asia. The younger one applied by Christopher Columbus, who allowed 225 degrees for the same distance. According to the Columban calculation, therefore, the New World/America was closer to Europe, its most western part no more than 135 degrees west of Portugal, while according to the Ptolemaic calculation, it was further west, to the South of India, as seen on the Jagiellonian Globe. Robert J. King described this explanation as a solution to the problem of representing the known world so that both the Ptolemaic and the Columbian ideas could be represented similar to that devised by Martin Waldseemüller for his world map of 1507, as described by Nunn. Acceptance of the Columbus claims to have reached the Indies (Eastern Asia) involved a rejection of Ptolemy's degree value and longitudes. As a result, there was a conflict between the Columbian and the Ptolemaic schools of geography. It was impossible satisfactorily to indicate that Columbus had reached eastern Asia if the cartographer retained the Ptolemy longitudes and attempted to represent the entire 360 degrees of the earth's circumference. Waldseemüller's map was a reconciliation of the Columbian longitudes with the Ptolemy longitudes as shown on the Erdapfel of Martin Behaim, made in Nuremberg in 1492. On the right-hand side of his world map Waldseemüller indicated the Ptolemy/Behaim conception included within 270 degrees of longitude from the meridian of the Canary Islands to the east, including the island of Zipango. The Waldseemüller map thus represents on its right hand side the Behaim conception of the earth as far as longitude 270ºE and terminates in the east with an open sea. The ocean East of Asia is named the Occeanus Orientalis Indicus. According to Robert J. King the above bilocation is applied likewise, on the Jagiellonian Globe as the different scales of longitude running eastward and westward result in a bilocation of America in the eastern and western hemispheres. It is not uncommon in case of new discoveries that there exited a certain uncertainty, even confusion. Therefore, it seems likely that the French horologist seems to have been confused about the precise location in the antipodal region of the newly discovered world. As a result, he engraved AMERICA NOVITER REPERTA in the wrong place, namely on a large, unnamed cartographic island in the Indian Ocean which