1
Historical Context
2
Interactive Exploration
3
"Cosmographiae introductio"
4
Imago Mundi
5
The Ancient World
6
Cathay and Cipangu
7
The Route to the Indies
8
The New World
9
The Earth
10
The Ocean
11
The Sky
12
Digital Library
Rudiments of geometry
Sphere, axes, and Poles
Celestial circles
Great circle
Small circle
Equator
Zodiac
Colures
Solsticial colure
Equinoctial colure
Meridian
Horizon
Arctic circle
Antarctic circle
Zodiacal Pole
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Theory of the sphere
Celestial zones and regions of the Earth
Parallels
Climates
Winds
Elements of cosmography
Appendix
The four ocean voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
"The Antarctic is a small circle that the other pole of the zodiac makes by revolving around that pole of the world." (
Cosmographiae introductio
, chap. III
- Hessler 2008)