Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium ... iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta ...

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WHAT IS CHOROGRAPHY?

A decorative initial letter C contains a small figure.Chorography (as Werner says), which is also called Topography, considers certain partial locations separately and absolutely, without comparing them to each other or to the universal circumference of the earth. It reports and pursues all things, and even the smallest details contained within them, such as ports, villages, peoples, the courses of streams, and whatever else is bordering them, such as buildings, houses, towers, and walls, etc. The end of this subject is finalized in the depiction of the likeness of a partial place, just as if a painter were to design and depict only an ear or an eye.

What Chorography considers.

The end of Chorography.

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