The God Culture: Tim Finally Admits the Behaim Globe Was Created in Germany

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture lies about everything. One of his stupidest and easily disprovable lies is his claim that the Behaim Globe of 1492 was commissioned by the King of Portugal. Rather than look up the readily available history of this globe Tim has relied on a blurb from the Cambridge Whipple Museum of Science and even A.I. to justify his lie about its creation. But now it seems Tim is changing his tune. In an interview with Zen Garcia Tim admits the Behaim Globe was created in Nuremberg. 

Unlocking hidden Truths with Tim Schwab, Zen Garcia,. and Lisa George

30:37 I'll give you a perfect example, and this is this is, you know, appropriate to our research, uh, you know, we have a blogger out there who who tries gotcha points. He, he never lands any because he just doesn't get it. He, he's challenged to even read, uh, you know something because he has such a racist colonial bias and he really hates the Philippines ultimately. Well, so, one of the things was, you know, he says, oh, you know, the Behaim Globe, but one of the things we said in the video, uh, and I think in our book too, uh, we say the Behaim Globe was, uh, commissioned by the king of Portugal. And, uh, our reference for that is just Cambridge University's Whipple Museum of History. That's all. You know we didn't say, they did. Um, but, but evidently that makes us liars because we're repeating what Cambridge University says. Well, okay whatever. But the point is so then seeing the AI on our website already because he knows he's toast, um, you know he goes and he tries to use AI. So it shows you how profoundly, you know, really demon possessed, but, uh, you know, illiterate this guy you know can be. 

So, he goes in and he he asks them about the Behaim Globe. Well, of course you're going to get the standard answer that you get from the internet, that you get from academic sources, etc. It doesn't mean it's right. So, I went and so he's so he's throwing that up you know and he sends us harassing emails all the time. They go in our spam folder, we hardly read any but every now and then I happen to see one or somebody, you know, will see it and send it to me. And in this case, you know, he's harping on, oh I contacted you know Gemini and I, and, uh, I don't know I think DeepSeek was the other one, and you know and they said the Behaim Globe was created in Nuremberg. Well, yes that's true. The Behaim Globe was created in Nuremberg uh and he received funding from friends of his. He's German basically, um, before we called it Germany. Um, and, so, but the point is, is he was Portuguese in, you know, maybe not in origin no but in nationality. He lived in Portugal. Uh, he was a sailor for the Portuguese government. He was on the king's Council regarding, uh, navigation matters. Hmm, gee. Uh, and then he was knighted by the Portuguese government.

Oh wow. 

He had a two-year perod where he returns to Nuremberg and, uh, that's when he, uh, completed the Behaim Globe. But look wait a minute this is the 1400s. Do you think he created a globe in two years of research? Yeah definitely not. He he had been researching Portuguese data which he was on the court and Council of the king, uh and that's where you know the map came from. So it is a Portuguese, uh, commissioned map. The King used it. Magellan saw the king's copy even. Um, you know, so all of that's there. So, so, anyway, so, I put that data to these AI's and both of them came back with the same answer. They both apologized for telling something that was not true and they shifted their position based on the evidence.

While Tim admits the Behaim Globe was created in Germany he continues to lie about it being commissioned by the King of Portugal. Let's take these lies one at a time. First his is use of the Cambridge Whipple Museum of Science. 

https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-whipple-collections/globes/brief-history-globes

The earliest globe that survives today was made in 1492 by Martin Behaim, a German navigator and geographer in the employ of King João II of Portugal. Behaim's globe recorded not only the lie of the lands being discovered by seabourne explorers, but also details of overseas commodities, market places and local trading protocols. Thus, the earliest surviving globe, which probably reflects many others produced around the same time, features information on more than cartography.

Does this say the King of Portugal commissioned and paid for Behaim's globe? NO! It only says Behaim was "in the employ of King João II of Portugal." Can Tim read? This says nothing about who paid for and commissioned the map. So, when Tim claims to be only repeating what Cambridge says about the construction of the Behaim Globe he is lying. 

The second lie is his claim about what I wrote him. Here is my email.

I asked A.I. who COMMISSIONED the Behaim Globe not where it was created. I did that because Tim claims he asked A.I. about the creation of this globe and it answered Portugal. Note that he did not reveal exactly what he asked the A.I. but seeing as the globe was definitely not commissioned by Portugal whatever Tim asked is irrelevant to the matter at hand. The question is NOT what data does the globe represent but WHO COMMISSIONED the globe. You can read about that here.

If the King of Portugal COMMISSIONED the globe why was it CREATED in Nuremberg as Tim now admits? Because it was COMMISSIONED by the City of Nuremberg. In a book titled Martin Behaim, His Life and His Globe by Ernest George Ravenstein we read the following.

https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008398949/page/42/mode/2up

It was, however, a member of the Town Council, George Holzschuher, to whom Martin Behaim became indebted for the greater part of the fame which he still enjoys. George Holzschuher in 1470 had visited Egypt and the Holy Land, and he evidently took some interest in the progress of geographical discoveries. It was he who suggested to his colleagues of the Rat that Behaim should be requested to undertake the making of a globe, upon which the recent discoveries of the Portuguese should be delineated. His suggestion was accepted, and to him we are indebted for the famous globe, a full account of which I shall give in the second part of this work.

Tim goes on to say: 

Well, yes that's true. The Behaim Globe was created in Nuremberg, uh, and he received funding from friends of his.

If the King of Portugal COMMISSIONED the Behaim Globe why did he not provide ALL the funding and why was it created in Nuremberg rather than Lisbon? Who paid for the Sistine Chapel? The Pope! Michelangelo did not need to get additional funding from his friends. The person who commissions a piece of work is the one who pays for it. 

Tim ends by showing how confused he is. He claims because Behaim worked for Portugal and used Portuguese data to create his globe that means it was commissioned by Portugal. But that is simply not true. It's like saying Family Guy was commissioned by the Rhode Island School of Design because that's where Seth MacFarlane learned animation. It's a non-sequitur. Fox commissioned the show and Seth used his knowledge gained at RISD to create the show. Similarly Behaim's hometown of Nuremberg commissioned the globe and he used his knowledge learned in Portugal to create it. 

It was he who suggested to his colleagues of the Rat that Behaim should be requested to undertake the making of a globe, upon which the recent discoveries of the Portuguese should be delineated.

It is simply infuriating to listen to this man blunder on and spit out lie after lie. He gets so close to the truth but he cannot go all the way. He still must deflect and lie because he is too proud to admit when he is wrong. 

This is not a small issue. The fact is Tim gets these little facts wrong and continues to tout them as truths. If he cannot get right something so small and historically verifiable as the Behaim globe was COMMISSIONED by the City of Nuremberg then the rest of what he says cannot be taken to be truthful. As I have proven in over 200 articles on this blog there is no truth in the words of Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.