Globus Jagellonicus

[1] The globe belonged to the medieval Cracow Academy (now called the Jagiellonian University); it is on display at the Collegium Maius Museum.

[citation needed] It uses the name "America", which had been introduced in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller in his Universalis Cosmographia, though for a continent located to the south of India.

King presented the hypothesis that the bilocation of America in the eastern and western hemispheres resulted from the two different scales of longitude employed.

[8] Acceptance of the Columbus claims to have reached the Indies (Eastern Asia) involved a rejection of Ptolemy's degree value and longitudes.

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.

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.

As a result, he engraved AMERICA NOVITER REPERTA in the wrong place, namely on a large, unnamed cartographic island in the Indian Ocean which was nameless on the Lenox Globe.

[citation needed] 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".

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.