Compendium of Cosmographical Disciplines

than to permit for it the fabulous nomenclature of Europe from the congress of a nefarious scoundrel with a cow referring to the myth of Zeus and Europa. To the fourth part, hitherto unknown to Latin records, although some have given it the name of the New World, others Western India, and others [have named it] from various discoverers: yet the name of Atlantis derived from Plato, from Plato and from the other [descendant] of our father Iapetus, who was called Atlus, Attalus, and Atlas, as also by many other names (as is handed down in the work of the Dispunctiones Cosmographicae Cosmographical Distinctions), is much more justly to be imposed or restored. When, however, the Southern portion becomes known, which both covers the whole Pacific sea and defends it from the sub-polar motion, the name Chasdiah a name Postel assigns to the southern continent will be given to it: as will be shown in the Dispunctiones why it ought to be so called.