Pigafetta was inadvertently responsible for the case of mistaken identity; in all likelihood, he confused Behaim’s rendition with that of another Nuremberg mapmaker, Johannes Schöner, a professor of mathematics who produced two maps, one in 1515 and the other in 1520, close to the time Magellan was displaying a map to King Charles. To the nonspecialist, Schöner’s maps closely resembled Behaim’s, and Pigafetta could easily have mistaken one for the other, especially because Schöner did not sign his productions.
