Cosmographiae totius compendiosa et dilucida explicatio

a Meridian. I preferred to bring light to the truth, yet I would not have undertaken this had the matter not been attested by the opinion of all the ancients and sufficiently proven by the authority of things, which the very reason and usage of the names also confirms.

Otherwise, just as it is permitted to imagine countless Meridians, so the Colures would have a very great variety, which is an overly absurd thing and, as I suppose, has no author or supporter. But let this suffice for now, lest I seem verbose.

Therefore, I ask you, adolescents, to accept this work of ours, however light or even entirely hasty it may be, with a fair and kind spirit, and enjoy it for as long as it takes for something of greater weight to be brought to us from those places where shops are surrounded by all kinds of the most approved books. Farewell. Lausanne, Kalends of February, 1573.