Title page of the series Creation of the World, designed by Hendrick Goltzius and executed by the young, talented engraver Jan Harmensz. Muller in the 1590s.
Orbis is also explicitly mentioned in the Latin epigram, by Franciscus Estius, in the cartouche:
Principio Omnipotens immensi conditor orbis
Esse polum iussit terraeque immobile pondus,
Hinc lucem tenebris removet, noctemque diemque
Nuncupat; et longis spatiis mox segregat undas,
Aequora secernit terris; vos Lunaeque Solique
Praefectos dedit; hinc animalia cuncta creavit.
Post haec natus homo est caelesti afflatus ab aura,
Divinae consors mentis, dominusque priorum.
That roughly goes as
At the beginning the almighty maker of the vast world
ordained that the sky should exist, and the earth’s unmoving mass.
Then he parted light from darkness, and named night and day;
soon after, across wide spaces, he divided the waters,
and separated the seas from the lands; and he appointed you,
Moon and Sun, as rulers. Then he created all living creatures.
After these things man was born, breathed on by heavenly air,
sharer in the divine mind, and lord of all created before.
