Proclus: On the Sphere; Cleomedes: On the World; Aratus: Phenomena

about those things. You easily see what difference there is between this and the previous edition of this volume; for this one now comes increased by the addition of HONTERUS Johannes Honter, a 16th-century cartographer and cosmographer, who, both in most elegant verse and in prose, has not only measured the world, but has furthermore encompassed in his final book the nomenclature of almost everything that exists among us. He starts from man as a microcosmus little world, for whose sake the greater world is believed to have been created; since all things were indeed made for the sake of man, but he himself for the sake of GOD, whom he should recognize as the creator, lord, and—through the Messiah the Mediator—his infinitely good, powerful, wise, and merciful Father; and having known Him, he should love, worship, praise, and glorify Him. Then, indeed, there is also the [description of the] land...