Compendium of Cosmographical Disciplines

...and that they should be held by consent. The second is that for those nations which are destitute of the use of this Latin or Japhetic referring to the linguistic family descending from Japheth language, namely the Arabic and Syriac—which is the language of Christ himself—I might share this same benefit of Reason together with the light of the Gospel, multiplied by the art of printing. I have prepared certain and necessary aids for both undertakings. For to accomplish the first, I have published my Work on the Concord of the World original: "Opus de Orbis terræ concordia", along with various appendices of writings; and at last, I have reduced all things to this: that in one Work, supported by human Reason before divine authority—of which I allege and provide testimonies from more than seven thousand places—it may be known, even among Catholics, let alone heretics, that for 1200 years the knowledge of Christ has perished by more than a solid third. Regarding this matter, in my final effort, the work whose title...