martin behaim designed a globe in 1492, in nuremberg, bavaria (germany). georg glockendon was the artist who created the actual map drawings following behaim's specifications. this globe is the oldest terrestrial globe still in existence. a copy of the globe showing america was made by martin waldseemueller in 1507. another early globe, the hunt-lenox globe, ca. 1507, is thought to be the source of the phrase "here be dragons". another "remarkably modern-looking" globe of the earth was made in constantinople (istanbul) by taqi al-din at his constantinople observatory during the 1570s.