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In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

After that, I have examined the book called The Pleasure of Him Who Longs
to Traverse the Horizons, and I contemplated its meanings and purposes, and I approved of
its sources and foundations. However, it spoke too much and repeated itself, ۞ and it omitted
the mention of some regions and added others, ۞ according to what the author loved and desired. ۞
So I have taken from his speech what suited the intended goal, ۞ and that which is of pressing need
for the knowledge of anchorages and countries. ۞ And I ask God, the Almighty, for help. ۞
There is no god but He, and He is my sufficiency and the best disposer of affairs. ۞

Fifth

The Discussion on the Image of the Earth Called Geography

The Sphere

We say that what has been summarized from the speech of the scholars ۞ and the greatest of the
ancient philosophers ۞ is that the Earth is round, like the curvature of a sphere in the water
that is attached to it and stagnant upon it. The air surrounds the water from all
sides, then that which was in contact with the air burned due to the proximity to the sphere of the Moon because of
Then that which was thick burned

the motion and the flow of the touching bodies, so it is the fire surrounding the air,
diminishing in size.

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Dr. phil. O. Pritsak
Göttingen
Gothmarstraße 17II

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The stamp at the bottom reads in Ukrainian: Scientific Library of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.