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Increasing interest in geographical discovery and maritime enterprise in the fourteenth and the fifteenth century.--Awakened interest in globe construction.--Martin Behaim and his globe of the year 1492.--The Laon globe.--Christopher and Bartholomew Columbus and their interest in globes.--John Cabot and his globe.--Globes of Johannes Stöffler.--Conrad Celtes and his part in arousing an interest in globes.