CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK.

Peter Apian’s Cosmographical book on the principles of Astrology and Cosmography.

By the same author, a description in parts of the four parts of the earth, namely Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. To which is added a description of the recently discovered region of Peru.

By the same author, on the observation of the hours of the night.

Gemma Frisius on the method of describing places, and on finding their distances.

By the same Gemma Frisius, on the use of the astronomical ring. Augmented in many places by the same Gemma recently.

THE POEM OF DIDACUS PYRRHUS THE LUSITANIAN.

Do you wish to see cities, do you wish a thousand places, a thousand towns,
All enclosed within a book of no great size?
Do you wish to know in what place, or in what region dwells
The Persian, while you yourself inhabit Brabantine soil—
The Persian, or the Hyrcanian, or the Parthian noble with his painted bow,
And the Turk proud upon his retreating horse?
Do you wish also to mark the tracts of the earth and the paths of the sky,
And the bright signs in the star-bearing pole?
Do you wish for a great treasure purchased for a small sum?
Buy this, reader, and peruse this work diligently.

DISTICH