Peter Heylyn, Microcosmus (1621)
Date
1621
Author
Peter
Heylyn
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
The Generall Præcognita Of Geographie
Book title
Microcosmvs, Or A Little Description of the Great World. A Treatise Historicall, Geographicall, Politicall, Theologicall
Publication place
Oxford
Publisher
John Lichfield and James Short
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
geography
Summary
A group of explanations of geographical terms of art, and 184 little chapters on place names from Arragon to Zagataie
Extent
A1r-B3r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: TERRA. We take not the Earth simply in its own nature as it is an element, for so it belongeth to Philosophy, but for the terrestriall Globe, so it is the subiect of Geographie, and is defined to bee a Sphericall body, proportionably composed of earth, and water.
The Earth, is by the best writers concluded to be 21600 miles in compasse; who withall coniecture, that if there were a path made round the earth, a nimble footman might easily goe it in 900 dayes. (a1r)
sample: TERRA. We take not the Earth simply in its own nature as it is an element, for so it belongeth to Philosophy, but for the terrestriall Globe, so it is the subiect of Geographie, and is defined to bee a Sphericall body, proportionably composed of earth, and water.
The Earth, is by the best writers concluded to be 21600 miles in compasse; who withall coniecture, that if there were a path made round the earth, a nimble footman might easily goe it in 900 dayes. (a1r)
Schafer
1621 H
STC
13276
Facsimiles
Heylyn, Peter. Microcosmus: or, A little description of the great world. The English experience, no. 743. Amsterdam and Norwood, N.J.: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and W. J. Johnson, 1975.
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