...figures, and the Whole can be nothing Copernicus short of the most perfect. Copernicus reasons : "In V the midst of all stands the sun; for who could in...which it can at the same time illuminate the whole ?" In each case the truth is in the analogical justification. The fact is only incidental to the mind's...

...In the center of all the celestial bodies rests the sun. For who in this most beautiful temple could place this lamp in another or better place than that from which it can illuminate everything at the same time? Indeed, it is not unsuitable that some have called it the light...

...in which we have said that the earth is contained with the lunar orbit as an epicycle. In the fifth place Venus goes round in nine months, in the sixth...Trismegistus calls it the visible God, the Electra of Sophocles the all-seeing. So indeed the sun, sitting on the royal throne, steers the revolving family...

...of the universe: In the centre of all resides the Sun. For in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better place than that from which it can illuminate the whole at one and the same time? As a matter of fact, not inappropriately do some call...

...place this lamp in another or better place than that from which it can illuminate the whole? \\Tiich some not unsuitably call the light of the world, others the soul or the ruler" (quoted in AC Crombie, Augustine to Galileo [London: Mercury Books, 1964], vol. 2, p. 174). That is...

...Giese does not say. In the center of all resides the Sun. For in this most beautiful temple, who would place this lamp in another or better place than that from which it can illuminate the whole at one and the same time? As a matter of fact, not inappropriately do some call...

...place this lamp in another or better place than that from which it can illuminate the whole? \\Tiich some not unsuitably call the light of the world, others the soul or the ruier" (quoted in AC Crombie, Augustine to Galileo [London: Mercury Books, 1964], vol. 2, p. 174)....