Speculum mundi· Or A glasse representing the face of the world shewing both that it did begin, and must also end: the manner how, and time when, being largely examined. Whereunto is joyned an hexameron, or a serious discourse of the causes, continuance, and qualities of things in nature; occasioned as matter pertinent to the work done in the six dayes of the worlds creation.

The fourth question is, Whether there be more wa∣ter* 1.1 then earth.

Now here I am perswaded that the answer may be either double or doubtfull. For if we have respect to the known parts of the world, then I think there may be more sea then land. But if we have respect to all, both known and unknown, then perhaps there may be as much land as sea: For we see that in the maps of the world, the Southern parts are not known, and therefore they write Terra Australis nondum cognita: which whe∣ther it be sea or land, is uncertain. Pareus, upon Gene∣sis, is perswaded that the land is more then the sea, alledging a proof out of * 1.2 Esdras, where it is said that when God commanded the waters to be gathered, he gathered them into the seventh part of the earth, and dried up the six other parts: which although it be Apo∣cryphall in respect of the autoritie of the book, yet (saith he) it serves to shew that the waters are not more then the earth.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Quest. 4. Shewing whether there be more water then earth.
• * 1.2

  2. Esdr. 6. 42.