[270] For map showing the climata see Konrad Miller, Die ältesten Weltkarten (Stuttgart, 1895), vol. iii, p. 127.
[271] This order is repeated in 13, 6.
[272] This passage indicates Isidore’s belief in a flat earth. See pp. [51]–[54].
[273] Isidore does not observe the distinctions he lays down here. He does not seem to have known that Orion and Bootes were constellations.
[274] Du Breul has in addition: latitudo intelligitur per signiferum, longitudo per proprium excursum.
[275] The celestial equator.
[276] Subjects of medical interest are treated also in book xi (parts of the body, monstrous births, etc.), in book xii (healing springs), and in book xxii (diet). There is also a chapter (39) on pestilence in De Natura Rerum.
[277] Galen was one of these.
[278] Max Neuberger, Geschichte der Medizin (Stuttgart, 1906–1911), vol. i, pp. 310–321.
[279] Ibid., vol. ii, p. 61 et seq.