26 SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE 
covery. Map-makers picking up their scraps of fact as 
they could, from the descriptions of Ptolemy, the authen- 
tic logs of recent voyages or the stories of sailors, were 
obliged or at least felt themselves impelled to work these 
facts into some sort of setting that gave their drawing 
an air of completeness. They had to fall back for this 
purpose on the old ideas of symmetry or analogy or else 
to draw upon their imagination — a more abundant source 
and much more easily tapped. It is not surprising that 
the globes of the sixteenth century varied vastly in their 
details. 
Leonardo da Vinci on his globe of 1515 depicts 
America and Africa separated by broad stretches of 
ocean from a continent almost included in the Antarctic 
circle, which would have been a marvellously lucky guess 
at the truth had there been any indication of a possible 
Australia. The globe of Schoner in 1515 also showed 
America and Africa free, but obviously on the strength of 
the “ Newen Zeytung aus Presillgt Landt,” America was 
represented as terminating in latitude 40° S. and nearly 
touching a huge ring-shaped continent almost encircling 
the globe and enclosing a sea which filled the Antarctic 
circle. This continent was laden with detail of moun- 
tains and rivers, and the part south of America was 
named Brasilie regio. Schoner’s globe of 1520 named 
the land south of America stretching from 40° to nearly 
8o° S. Brasilia Inferior . The map of Orontius Finne, 
published in 1531, seems to combine the information of 
the two foregoing with Magellan’s discovery, for it 
shows a vast continent covering the whole Antarctic area 
coming close to America, keeping more distant from 
Africa, but swelling out in the south Indian Ocean almost 
to the tropic in a great square projection called Brasilie 
