ON THE DREAM OF SCIPIO

On the width of the earth inhabited by us.

*in the same [description]

...temperate original: "neris," likely a fragment of "generis" or "veneris" in nature, the sea flows in from the Ocean in a similar fashion. However, this should not be described by our own testimony, as its location remains unknown to us. Furthermore, what he said regarding our habitable zone being narrowed at the poles but wider at the sides, we will be able to observe *in the same description referring to the accompanying map. For by as much as the tropical circle is longer than the Northern circle, by so much is the zone narrower at the poles than at the sides. This is because its top is contracted into a narrow space by the shortness of the furthest circle, while the extension of the sides is stretched out by the length of the tropic on both parts.

On the smallness of the Ocean.

Finally, the ancients said that our entire habitable world is similar to an outstretched cloak term: chlamys; a short mantle or cloak worn by ancient Greeks, used here as a metaphor for the oval-like shape of the known world. Likewise, because the whole earth in which...

The woodcut depicts a "Macrobian" world map, a common medieval and Renaissance representation of the globe divided into climatic zones.

Text within the map:
THULE The mythical northernmost land
BRITAIN
EUROPE
GAUL, SPAIN
ITALY
AFRICA
ETHIOPIA, SCORCHED ZONE
RIPHEAN MOUNTAINS A legendary mountain range in the far north
FRIGID ZONE
ARMENIA, INDIA
PARTHIA
THE RED SEA
CHANNEL OF THE OCEAN
SCORCHED ZONE
TEMPERATE ZONE OF THE ANTIPODES
UNKNOWN TO US
FRIGID ZONE