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| (55) Per lineam vero latitudinis, ut comuniter habemus ab eisdem, extenditur ab illis quorum cenith est circulus equinoctialis, usque ad illos quorum cenith est circulus descriptus a polo zodiaci circa polum mundi, qui quidem distat a polo mundi circiter xxiij gradus; et sic extensio latitudinis est quasi lxvij graduum et non ultra, ut patet intuenti. | (55) Latitudinally, as we commonly receive from the same authorities, it stretches from those whose zenith is the equinoctial circle to those whose zenith is the circle described by the pole of the zodiac round the pole of the universe, which is distant from the pole of the universe about twenty-three degrees. And thus the extension in latitude is about sixty-seven degrees and no more, as is evident on reflection. |