Note 868 — Chapter VIII

Cosmographie in Four Books, containing the Chorographie and Historie of the whole World, London, 1657, by Peter Heylin, D.D., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Rector of Hemmingford and Houghton, and Prebendary of Westminster, “in his younger days an excellent poet, in his elder a better historian” (Athenæ Oxonienses). From the preface to the latter it appears that the Cosmographie was an amplification or enlarged edition of a Microcosmus, published in 1622, by the same author, who during his lifetime wrote and published about forty works of a theological, educational, or political character. (Sabin, Dictionary, viii. 260; O’Callaghan Catalogue, 1086-87.) There were other editions of various dates, for which see Bohn’s Lowndes, p. 1059.