这两个图是两个地球仪的同一侧面。左图是地球仪制作家马丁·贝赫姆于1492年所制。该年正是哥伦布“发现新大陆”的一年。右图的制作约在1528年,正是麦哲伦和他的水手完成环行世界七年之后。当时人们对于世界地理的知识还有限,但相信地球是“圆”的,相信从欧洲向西航行,就可到达中国。(采自迈尔斯:“中世和现代史”。) These two figures are the same side of the two globes. The left is made by globe producer Martin Behring in 1492. This year is exactly the year Columbus “discovered the New World.” The picture on the right was made around 1528, exactly seven years after Magellan and his sailors completed the round-robin world. At that time, people had limited knowledge about world geography, but they believed the Earth was a “round” one and believed that they could reach China by sailing west from Europe. (From Myers: “The history of the Middle Ages and the modern.”)