1. Martin Behaim
Anton and Linus

2. Big Idea

3. Our Explorer
Merchant
Birth 6. October 1459
Navigator
Knight
Explorer
School Darmstadt

4. Exploration
King Joao II
Admiral Diogo Cao
Coast of western Africa
Discovery of the Straits of Magellan

5. Behaimsche Erdapfel
First Globe
After his Exploration
America not discovered
Georg Glockendon

7. Behaim Price
Every Year
Send in ideas
Best idea gets price

8. Death
While another exploration he got imprisonment
Pirat helped him out
The new King did not like him
Died starving 29. Juli 1507
He got 48 years old

9. Myth
Behaim developed an astrolabe
Behaim discovered America before Kolumbus
Behaim was a famous Scientist
Helped Portugal to sail over the ocean

10. Bibliography
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/140
0.shtml
http://www.planet-
wissen.de/natur_technik/ordnungssysteme/karto
grafie/martin_behaim.jsp
http://www.steiner-
verlag.de/verlag/forschungspreise/behaim-
preis.html
http://www.wasistwas.de/wissenschaft/beruehmt
e-
personen/artikel/link//2b0df759e3/article/martin-