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• While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary.
  They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day....
• Nevertheless, in the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconvenience
  for both the loading of the earth with a triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility in nature, by representing the sun and stars as immoveable, especially being of all bodies the highest and most radiant, and making the moon revolve about the earth in an epicycle, and some other assumptions of his, are the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer....
• The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed.
  Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days....
• The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data.
  Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days....
• Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.
• Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle.
  Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center....
• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• Heaven and earth were created all together in the same instant, on October 23rd, 4004 B.
  C. at nine o'clock in the morning. -- Dr....