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Pope Paul III., the head, at that time, (1543) of 

 the religious world ; and was published, as the 

 author states in the preface, at the urgent en- 

 treaty of friends, one of whom was a cardinal, 

 and another a bishop.* " I know," he says, 

 " that the thoughts of a philosopher are far re- 

 moved from the judgment of the vulgar; since it 

 is his study to search out truth in all things, as 

 far as that is permitted by God to human reason." 

 And though the doctrines are for the most part 

 stated as portions of a mathematical calculation, 

 the explanation of the arrangement by which the 

 sun is placed in the centre of the system is ac- 

 companied by a natural reflexion of a religious 

 cast : " Who in this fair temple would place this 

 lamp in any other or better place than there 

 whence it may illuminate the whole? We find 

 then under this ordination an admirable sym- 

 metry of the world, and a certain harmonious 

 connexion of the motion and magnitude of the 

 orbs, such as in any other way cannot be found. 

 Thus the progressions and regressions of the 

 planets all arise from the same cause, the motion 

 of the earth. And that no such movements are 

 seen in the fixed stars, argues their immense 



* Amici me cunctantem atque etiam reluctantem, retraxerunt, 

 inter quos primus fuit Nicolaus Schonbergius, Cardinalis Capua- 

 nus, in omni genere literatum Celebris; proximus ille vir mei 

 anvantissimusTidemannus Gisius, episcopus Culmensis, sacrarum 

 ut, est et omnium bonarum literarum studiosissimus. De Revo- 

 lutiombns. Pr&f. ad 'Paulum III. 



