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Totius orbis cogniti universalis descriptio :, cui etiam eandem orbis terrae delineationem, duorum circulorum capitate, huius descriptinonis mundi longitudinem documento admirantibus, adiecimus, A° M.D.L.xxxix /, Gerardus Iudaeus excudebat.
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The work 'Totius orbis cogniti universalis descriptio' (1593) by Gerardus Judaeus (Gerard de Jode) is a cartographic work, specifically a world map. My searches across multiple catalogs (including local scholarly catalogs, Google Books, and Internet Archive) yielded no evidence of an English translation of this specific map's text. Cartographic descriptions of this nature are typically not 'translated' in the literary sense, and no scholarly English edition of this specific 1593 map text was found.
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This 16th-century document captures the world as it appeared to mapmakers during the peak of global discovery. It distills the complex geography of the era into a singular, bold vision that links the naming of America to the mysterious Southern Land.