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 tropic of Capricorn is a lesser circle by which the sun, when at the first point of that constellation, describes the motion of the prime mover. This is the circle of the winter solstice." (
Cosmographiae introductio
, chap. III
- Hessler 2008)