A Briefe Introduction to Geography -- William Pemble

[VirginiaHuguenot]

A Briefe Introduction to Geography by William Pemble (1591-1623) is available online here.

 

[sastark]

Ohh! Ahh!

Very cool. Downloaded before even replying to post. Thanks for the link, Andrew!

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Ohh! Ahh!

Very cool. Downloaded before even replying to post. Thanks for the link, Andrew!

You're welcome, brother. I was thinking of you when I posted this.

 

[sastark]

Interesting. From a very brief glance at the work, it seems that Pemble teaches a geocentric solar system. The Introduction to Geography was first published in 1630, a full twenty years after Galileo's observations of the phases of Venus, giving some emperical evidence to a heliocentric solar system. (I say "some" because Tycho Brahe had a method for explaining these phases which maintained an immovable Earth).

Very interesting.