INTRODUCTION

DEDICATION OF DONNUS NICHOLAUS GERMANUS

BOOK ONE

What presuppositions are to be made use of in Geography

How from measuring the stadia of any given distance although not on the same meridian it may be determined how many stadia there are in the circu...

accounts of travelers

Attention must be paid to the latest researches because the earth in the 6 Concerning the geographical narrations of Marinus

They are also corrected by measuring journeys on land

They are also corrected by measuring journeys on water

Ethiopia should not be placed more to the south than the circular parallel which is opposite the parallel passing through Meroe

The calculation of the longitude of the earth corrected by land journeys

The same calculation of longitude corrected by sea journeys

Concerning the voyage from the Golden Chersonesus to Cattigara

Concerning the things in which Marinus disagrees with us

In fixing the boundaries of provinces Marinus has made some mistakes

Of the inconvenience of the method of Marinus for delineating the habitable earth

Of the convenience of our method of delineating the whole earth

What must be done should one desire to delineate the earth in one plane

Explanation of the meridians and parallels used in our delineation

How the habitable earth can be shown in a plane map so that its measurements are in keeping with its spherical shape

A prologue of the particular descriptions and a description of the western part of Europe including the several provinces and prefectures which are c...

Hibernia island of Britannia

Albion island of Britannia

Hispanic Baetica

Hispanic Lusitania

Hispanic Tarraconensis

Aquitanian Gaul

Lugdunensian Gaul

Belgic Gaul

Narbonensian Gaul

Greater Germania

Raetia and Vindelica

Noricum

Lower Pannonia

Illyria or Liburnia and Dalmatia

BOOK THREE EUROPE MAPS VIX

Corsica island

Sicily island

Sarmatian Europe

Tauric peninsula

Iazyges Metanastae

Upper Moesia

Lower Moesia

Thracia and the Peninsula

Macedonia

Epirus

BOOK FOUR AFRICA Maps IIV

BOOK SIX Continued

Susiana

Persia

Carmania Deserta

Carmania

Hyrcania

Margiana

Sogdiana

Scythia this side the Imaus mountains

Scythia beyond the Imaus mountains

Aria

Paropanisades

Gedrosia

BOOK SEVEN Asia Maps XXII

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India beyond the Ganges

Location of Sinae

Island of Taprobana and those islands which surround it

Descriptive summary of the maps of the world

Description of the Armillary Sphere in which is represented the inhab ited earth

Epilogue to the foregoing

BOOK EIGHT

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