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The sphericity of the Earth was established by Hellenistic astronomy in the 3rd century BC, and the first Globes appeared at that time. The oldest known example is he built Crates of Wicked in Cilicia in the middle of the 2nd century BC.1The first Globes represented only the emerged lands of the old world, and the extension of these depended on the degree of knowledge of them to be had in each historical moment. Built by Muslim cartographers from the golden age of islam reached a high degree of perfection, as the built in the 9th century to the Caliph Abbasid - Ma ' mun.2 3 another example was that the Persian astronomer Jamal ad-Din presented in Beijing in 1267.4El oldest globe preserved - the Erdapfel - was built by Martín Behaim in the German city of Nuremberg in 1492. The principle that represented the emerged lands of the new world was made by Martín Waldseemüller in 1507, adapting to the sphere his Universalis Cosmographia. Another Renaissance globe, the Hunt-Lenox globe ( ca. 1507 ) includes the sentence, converted into a topic, " there are dragons ". At the Istanbul Observatory was built in the years 1570 a globe of very modern appearance, by Taqi al - Din