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BEfore or we spere of the ster¦res & knowlege that Ptho∣lomeus and other Astrono∣myers haue / we wyll speke of the deuysyon of the erthe / & of his partyes after theyr opynyon. wherfore it is to be noted that the erthe is rounde / and therfore as a man go the from one countre to another / he hath other ozy¦ron
than he had / and there apperyth another partye of the skye / & if a man went from sep∣temtryon that is the North partyes streyghte towarde mydday / the South partyes the po∣le artyke to hym shal be lesse reysed / that is to say more nyghe approchynge to the erthe: and if he went contrary wyse it shuld be more rey¦sed / that is to say apperynge hygher / and ther¦fore if he went towarde mydday vnder me∣rydyen whyle that the pole artyke were lesse reysed ouer his ozyon by the .xxx. parte of one of the .vi. parte of the arke merydyen: he shuld passe the .xxx. partes of halfe of the cyrcuyte of the erthe / and to hym the pole shuld be lesse reysed by one degree / or to the contrary tyll it were more reysed of one degree / than he shuld passe one degree of the cyrcuyte of the erthe / of the which al the degrees togyther ben .CCC .lx. And one degree of the erth cōtayneth .xliii .leges & a halfe or there aboute / and euery lege¦is .ii. myle. And as the spere of the skye is deuy¦ded by the .iiii .lesse cyrcles in the .v. partes cal¦led zones / so the erthe is deuyded in to .v. regy¦ons. ¶ The firste is bytwene the pole artyke and the cyrcle artyke. The .ii .is bytwene the cyrcle artyke and the tropyke of somer. The .iii .is bytwene the tropyke of somer / and the tropyke of wynter. The .iiii .is bytwene the
tropyke of wynter / and the cyrcle antertyke. The .v. bytwene the cyrcle antertyke and the pole antertyke. Of the whiche partyes of the erthe / some Astronymyers saye that the firste & the .v. ben inhabytable / for theyr ouer great coldenes / for they ben to ferre from the sonne. The thirde that is in the mydle is to nere vn¦der the way of the sonne / and is nat inhaby∣table for the great hete. The other .ii. partyes / the seconde and the fourthe be nat to nere nor to ferre from the sonne / but ben moderate in hete and colde / and therfore they ben habyta∣ble if there be none other lettynge / and suppo¦se that it be true / yet it is nat possyble to passe ouerth warte the Regyon vnder the waye of the sonne called zone / tourned, to go from the seconde to the fourth / for some Astronomyers wolde haue passed / that wolde haue shewed of it / wherfore they say that there is no Regy¦on habyted / but the seconde wherin we and all the other ben also.