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¶ Chapter Eleven.
Concerning the parts of measure which the World-Measurer original: "Cosmimetra," referring to one who measures the earth and heavens uses.
¶ Chapter Twelve.
How the circumference of the earth itself is calculated from the measurement in stades original: "stadiasmo," an ancient unit of distance.
¶ Chapter Thirteen.
How the distance of cities or places is to be found: those which differ in latitude only.
Those which differ in longitude alone.
Those which differ in longitude and latitude together.
How degrees of longitude outside the equinoctial the Equator are to be converted into degrees of the equinoctial.
How the distance between places is to be found on a globe by a geometric method.
How the interval between places is to be calculated using tables of sines.
¶ Chapter Fourteen.
How the Geographic globe is to be positioned relative to the four cardinal points of the world and to any place whatever.
How cities are to be located on a geographic globe.
By what method a globe is constructed and put together.
¶ Chapter Fifteen.
What wind is, and how many there are in number.
What their nature and order is.
How the meridian line is to be drawn by a common method of discovery.
How the same line may be detected by an azimuthal instrument.
Another discovery of the same which is made by a traveler’s instrument original: "organum viatorium," likely a portable sundial or pocket compass.
¶ Chapter Sixteen.
Concerning the Antipodes those living on the exact opposite side of the earth and their habitation.
Concerning the Antoeci those living in the opposite hemisphere but on the same meridian.
Concerning the Perioeci those living at the same latitude but on the opposite side of the earth, the Periscii those whose shadows move in a circle, such as at the poles, and the Amphiscii those whose shadows fall both north and south depending on the season.
¶ Chapter Seventeen.
What an Island is.
What a Peninsula is.
What an Isthmus is.
What a Continent is.
¶ Chapter Eighteen.
How the location of each city or town is to be found in the tables of Ptolemy original: "Ptho:," referring to Claudius Ptolemy, the 2nd-century geographer.
¶ Chapter Nineteen.
What the "Mirror of the World" original: "speculum orbis," likely referring to a specific map or a paper instrument included in the book is.
How the site of places or cities is to be sought in the mirror.
How the mirror is to be verified according to the site of your own dwelling.
Over which regions, islands, or towns the sun moves directly overhead on a given day, and over which it does not.
How to investigate what hour it is in any region or city at every hour of the day.
The second part of this little work contains within itself a summary as well as a detailed description of the whole world: that is, of Regions, Mountains, Forests, Springs, Rivers, Lakes, Seas, Islands, Peninsulas, Cities, and Towns.