Writing New Worlds: Eberhard Werner Happel and the Invention of a Genre MARÍLIA DOS SANTOS LOPES With the sea travels of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, new data became available about the world, and little by little it was either intro- duced onto new maps or it became the topic of wonderful and surpris- ing travel narratives. In 1581, one century after the first Portuguese ex- peditions and almost eighty years after Martin Waldseemüller, a Ger- man geographer, had drawn his map of the new contours of the world, theologian Heinrich Bünting included a presentation of the globe in his biblical commentary (see Berkemeier 95). Fig.1: