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Terra est rotunda, fingenda igitur duobus Hemisphaeriu. a...b
Ambitus ejus, est graduum CCCLX. (quorum quisque facit Milliaria Germanica XV) seu Milliarum VMCCCC: & tamen est Punctum, collata cum Orbe, cujus Centrum est.
Longitudinem ejus dimetiuntur Climatibus, 1. Latitudinem, lineis Parallelis. 2.
Eam ambit Occanus, 3. & perfundunt V Maria, Mediterraneum, 4. Balticum, 5. Erythraeum, 6. Persicum, 7. Caspium. 8.
The earth is round, & therefore to be represented by two Hemispheres, a...b
The circuit of it is three hundred & sixty de∣grees (whereof every one maketh fifteen German miles) or 5400 miles; and yet it is but a prick, being compared wt ye world, whereof it is the Centre.
They measure the longi∣tude of it by Climates, and the Latitude by Parallels. 2.
The Ocean 3. compasseth it about, and five Seas wash it, the Mediterrane Sea, 4. the Baltick Sea, 5. the Red Sea, 6. the Persian Sea, 7. and the Caspian Sea, 8.