COSMOGRAPHIAE.

the opposite side, very similar to this line, namely between the opposite Pole and the Tropic. In this way, the globe, as large as it is (excluding the Torrid Zone), may appear to be divided into four parts, all of which, if you add them to the Torrid Zone, will result in the number of five Zones: of which those that have the extreme place on both sides are called the Frigid [Zones]. For since the Sun, in its motion, never goes beyond the limits of the Tropics—that is, the Torrid Zone—toward the Poles, those Zones, being so far distant from the Sun, must necessarily be rigid with the greatest and most harsh frosts.

Both of the other Zones, which are adjacent to the Glacial ones, on this side and that of the Torrid, are named Temperate, being extremely suitable for the life of all living things in the orb of the lands.

For as we have made a partition of the entire Heaven, we wish the same equal reason to obtain for the Earth beneath it.

Let us therefore make those five Zones correspond to these lands of ours in a certain proportion: whatever is situated beneath the upper frigid [zones] are frigid; those under the Temperate are Temperate. That portion, however, which is constituted beneath the Torrid Zone will burn with heat more than the others.

But neither should this be passed over: the middle part of this globe, which extends from the Equator toward the Pole

Vocabulary: Cosmography, Torrid Zone, Frigid Zone, Temperate Zone, Equator, Pole, Tropic