who invented the globe

Martin Behaim, a German navigator and geographer who worked for the Portuguese crown, is widely credited with creating the oldest known surviving terrestrial globe in 1492. This globe, often referred to as the "Earth-apple," was produced in Nuremberg and funded by the city council under King João II of Portugal. Behaim’s globe represents the culmination of late-15th century European cartography, drawing on then-current Portuguese explorations and earlier geographical knowledge, though it omits some regions and contains inaccuracies that reflect its era.