Cosmographia siue geographia D. Iacobi Cheyneii ... duobus libris comprehensa. Accessit Gemmæ Phrysij medici ac mathematici De orbis diuisione, [et] insulis recenter inuentis, opusculum longe, quam ante hac castigatius

Cheyne, James, -1602, Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555. De principiis astronomiae · 1599 · Duaci [Douai], : sumptibus Baltaris Belleri, sub Circino · 12 pictures

A 1599 cosmography and geography text by James Cheyne, with Gemma Frisius's treatise on dividing the globe, printed at Douai by Balthasar Bellerus for scholars of astronomy and geography. Its pictures are plain woodcut diagrams and ornaments: a geometric circle with crossing lines, a scrolled cartouche, a repeating lattice of foliate panels, and a circular chart of hours and climatic zones labelled with place terms, offering designers simple geometric and decorative patterns.

Cosmography · Geography

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