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

...of those places, nations, and islands; you see that some maps have also now been added, showing to the eye everything that had been explained in words. Finally, this edition is highly recommended to us over the other by those most learned notes original: "Scholia" of your teacher, I mean Sixte SCHRECKENFUCHS, added here to Proclus, which are for the first time now coming into the light.

But I have wished to dedicate it to your name, my dearest relatives, so that I might also add spirit to you for the study of these disciplines; the knowledge of which, apart from its other almost infinite benefits, which have often been treated by others by design, furthermore shapes and kindles the mind of man (unless it is entirely perverse) almost no