The discovery of America . to identify with fabulous Antilia is in the same longitude asupon Behaims globe. If now, contrasting Ruyschwith Behaim, we observe the emergence of theLand of the Holy Cross, or New World fromthe Atlantic ocean, in place of the fabulous isle, we cannot fail to see in a momentwhat was the most huge and startling feature thathad been added to the map of the world during theinterval between 1492 and 1507. And this emer-gence of land from an unknown deep was duechiefly to the third voyage of Vespucius, for theshort extent of Pearl Coast explored b
The discovery of America . to identify with fabulous Antilia is in the same longitude asupon Behaims globe. If now, contrasting Ruyschwith Behaim, we observe the emergence of theLand of the Holy Cross, or New World fromthe Atlantic ocean, in place of the fabulous isle, we cannot fail to see in a momentwhat was the most huge and startling feature thathad been added to the map of the world during theinterval between 1492 and 1507. And this emer-gence of land from an unknown deep was duechiefly to the third voyage of Vespucius, for theshort extent of Pearl Coast explored by Columbusin 1498 was not enough to impress mens mindswith the idea of a great continent detached fromAsia. 120 THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. So far as Mundus Novus is concerned, I liave called Ruyschs map an exponent of the wet or oceanic theory. In its northern portion, globe, cir. howcvcr, whcrc Greenland and Labra- 1510. T . , ^, . , , dor are joined to China, we have thecontinental or dry style of theorizing, very much. Western half of the Lenox globe, cir. 1510. after the fashion of Claudius Ptolemy. For anextreme illustration of the oceanic style of in-terpretation we must look to the Lenox globe,which was discovered in Paris about forty yearsAgo, and afterward found its way into the library MUNBUS NOVUS. 121 of Mr. James Lenox, of New York. This is acopper globe, about five inches in diameter, madein two sections which accurately fit together, mak-ing a spherical box; the line of junction forms theequator. The makers name is unknown, but it isgenerally agreed that it must have been made in1510 or early in 1511.^ It is one of the earliestrecords of a reaction against the theory that itwould be possible to walk westward from Cuba toSpain dry-shod. Here the new discoveries are allplaced in the ocean at a good distance from thecontinent of Asia, and all except South Americaare islands. The land discovered by the Cabotsappears, without a name, just below the Arctic cir-cle, with
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