Article: WRITER EXPLORES THE IMPORTANCE OF QUEST FOR MATERIAL GAIN IN HISTORY.(Lifestyle)(Review)

When the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan undertook his fabled circumnavigation of the world on behalf of the King of Spain, one of the instruments he took with him was a globe made by a former German cloth merchant named Martin Behaim, who stole some of the precious information he needed to make it from a guarded cartographic archive in Lisbon.

The globe, which had the latest information garnered from Portuguese explorations, was ``copiously annotated, with inscriptions detailing the commodities and the nature of the business opportunities at various key commercial locations in the world.''

Behaim's sphere, a beautiful object in itself, is an ...

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