‘There are two kinds of Instruments by which Artificers have conceived that the figure of this so beautifull and various fabricke of the whole Universe might most aptly be expressed, and as it were at once presented to the view. The one exhibiting this Idea in a round solid is called a Globe. The other, expressing the same in a plaine, they tearme a Planisphaere or Map.… The Planisphaere, indeed, is a fine invention.… But yet that Other, being the more ancient, hath also the priority in Nature, and is of the most convenient forme; and therefore more aptly accommodated for the understanding and fancy (not to speake any of the beauty and gracefulnesse of it), for it representeth the things themselves in proper genuine figures.’