The Ostrich Egg Globe is a hollow terrestrial globe purportedly made from the conjoined lower halves of two ostrich eggs. The map carved on the globe is an extremely close, if not identical, match to the Hunt–Lenox Globe, a copper globe reliably dated to about 1510.
The Ostrich Egg Globe is a hollow terrestrial globe purportedly made from the conjoined lower halves of two ostrich eggs. The map carved on the globe is an extremely close, if not identical, match to the Hunt–Lenox Globe, a copper globe reliably dated to about 1510.
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