English: Title-border to The Cosmographical Glasse, conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Nauigation, compiled by William Cunningham Doctor in Physicke; top left, nude male figure wearing crown and holding short sword pointed to the sun, accompanied by a lion and an infant; top right, male and female, both nude, embracing, female holding a shellfish and a short sword pointing at the moon; top centre, a winged satyr (or Saturn ?) holding a scythe accompanied by an infant male, a young man and an old man, below which representations of Ptolemy and Marinus of Neapolis either side of a globe and a banner with the motto 'VIRESCIT VVLNERE VERITAS' ('Truth strengthens by her wound'); on the left side, representations of Aratus, Hipparchus holding a quadrant, a personification of geometry holding a ruler, set square and compasses, and a personification of arithmetic accompanied by a tablet of numbers; on the right side, representations of Strabo drawing a map of England, Polybius holding a cross, a personification of astronomy holding a celestial sphere, and a personification of music playing a lute; bottom centre, a represenation of Mercury holding his caduceus; to the left of Mercury a nude couple embrace, to the right a female figure holding a flower; throughout the whole, clouds, stars and comets; on the verson, a coat of arms with the motto 'Droict et loyal' ('Just and loyal'). 1559
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