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
Theory of the sphere
Celestial zones and regions of the Earth
Northern cold zone
Northern temperate zone
Torrid zone
Southern temperate zone
Southern cold zone
Parallels
Climates
Winds
Elements of cosmography
Appendix
The four ocean voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
"The second zone is a temperate zone and is inhabited. It occupies the space between
bc
[Arctic circle] and
de
[Tropic of Cancer]." (
Cosmographiae introductio
, chap. V
- Hessler 2008)