The terrestial Sphere.
Sphera terrestris.
[Illustration]
The _Earth_ is round, and
therefore to be represented
by two _Hemispheres_, a..b.
_Terra_ est rotunda,
fingenda igitur
duobus _Hemispheriis_, a..b.
The Circuit of it
is 360 _degrees_
(whereof every one maketh
60 _English_ Miles
or 21600 Miles,)
Ambitus ejus
est _graduum_ CCCLX.
(quorum quisque facit
LX. Milliaria _Anglica_
vel 21600 Milliarium)
and yet it is but a prick,
compared with the World,
whereof it is the _Centre_.
& tamen est punctum,
collata cum orbe,
cujus _Centrum_ est.
They measure Longitude
of it by _Climates_, 1.
and the _Latitude_
by _Parallels_, 2.
Longitudinem ejus
dimetiuntur _Climatibus_, 1.
_Latitudinem_,
lineis _Parallelis_, 2.
The _Ocean_, 3.
compasseth it about,
and five _Seas_ wash it,
_Oceanus_, 3.
ambit eam
& _Maria_ V. perfundunt
the _Mediterranean Sea_, 4.
the _Baltick Sea_, 5. the _Red Sea_, 6.
the _Persian Sea_, 7.
and the _Caspian Sea_, 8.
_Mediterraneum_, 4.
_Balticum_, 5. _Erythræum_, 6.
_Persicum_, 7.
_Caspium_, 8.