Questio de aqua et terra (56)

(56) Et sic patet quod terram emergentem oportet habere figuram semilunii vel quasi, quia illa figura resultat ex tanta latitudine et longitudine, ut patet. (56) And thus it is clear that the emergent land must have the figure of a half-moon, or something like it; for that is the figure which results from such latitude and longitude, as is evident.