XXV111 ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER 4. Containing an ansivere to that which is objected out of 



the Holy Scripture against the roundness of the earth, 

 Explanation of St. Paul s words 12 



The letter kills; the spirit quickeneth - 13 



CHAPTER 5. Of the fashion and forme of Heaven at the new found 



land. 



Comparison of stars in North and South 14 



The Southern Cross 14 



Art of navigation - 15 



Milky Way 15 



CHAPTER 6. That there is Land and Sea under the two Poles. 



Men as near Heaven in Peru as in Spain 15 



The Pole Antarticke 16 



Distribution of land and sea - 17 



Land and sea at the Poles 18 



Question of a North West Passage 18 



CHAPTER 7. To confute the opinion of Lactantius, who holdes there 

 be no Antipodes. 



Lactantius and St. Augustine on the Antipodes - 19 



Reason corrects imagination 20 



The use of imagination 21 



CHAPTER 8. The reason why St. Augustine denied the Antipodes. 



Opinions of St. Augustine 22 



His difficulty in the greatness of the ocean 23 



Concurrence of St. Gregory Nazianzen - 23 



The Scriptures speak only of the then known world 24 



CHAPTER 9. Of Aristotle s opinion touching the new Worlde, and 

 what abused him to make him deny it. 



Opinions of the ancients as to heat of the burning Zone 25 



Aristotle s opinion 25 



Want of knowledge among the Ancients 26 



Extreme cold and heat of Arctic and Torrid Zones 27 



The southern Zones - 29 



