Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.
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London :: Printed for J. Kirton ...,
1659.
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Latin language -- Readers.
Natural history -- Juvenile literature.
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"Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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descriptionPage 219
CVII. b. (Book 107b)
[illustration]
107. b
Sphaera terrestris.
Distribuitur in Zonas V. quarum duae Frigidae, 9..9. sunt inhabitabiles; duae Temperatae, 10...10. & Torrida, 11. habitantur.
Ceterum divisa est in tres Continentes: Nostram, 12. quae subdividitur in Europam, 13. Asiam, 14 & Africam, 15 in Americam, 16...16 cujus incolae nobis sunt Antipodes; & in Terram Australem, 17..17 adhuc incognitam.
Habitantes sub Arcto, 18. semestrales habent Noctes Diesque.
In maribus, Infinitae natant Insulae.
descriptionPage 219
The terrestrial Sphere.
It is divided into 5 Zones, wherof the 2 frigid ones 9. 9 are inhabitable, the 2 Temperate ones, 10...10 & ye Torrid one, 11. habitable.
Besides it is divided into three Continents; this of ours, 12. wt is subdi∣vided into Europe, 13 Asia, 14. Africa, 15. America, 16...16. (whose inhabitants are Antipodes to us) and the South. land 17...17 yet unknown.
They that dwel under the North-pole, 18. have ye days and nights 6 months long.
Infinite Islands float in the Seas.
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