Accordingly, Since Nothing Prevents The Earth From

In The Center Of All Rests The Sun. For Who Would Place This Lamp Of A Very Beautiful Temple In Another Or Better Place That This Wherefrom It Can Illuminate Everything At The Same Time? As A Matter Of Fact, Not Unhappily Do Some Call It The Lantern; Others, The Mind And Still Others, The Pilot Of The World. Trismegistus Calls It A "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that Which Gazes Upon All Things." And So The Sun, As If Resting On A Kingly Throne, Governs The Family Of Stars Which Wheel Around.

Yet The Widespread Planetary Theories, Advanced By Ptolemy And Most Other Astronomers, Although Consistent With The Numerical Data, Seemed Likewise To Present No Small Difficulty. For These Theories Were Not Adequate Unless They Also Conceived Certain Equalizing Circles, Which Made The Planet Appear To Move At All Times With Uniform Velocity Neither On Its Deferent Sphere Nor About Its Own Epicycle's Center.

The Earth Together With Its Surrounding Waters Must In Fact Have Such A Shape As Its Shadow Reveals, For It Eclipses The Moon With The Arc Of A Perfect Circle.

Finally We Shall Place The Sun Himself At The Center Of The Universe.

Finally We Shall Place The Sun Himself At The Center Of The Universe. All This Is Suggested By The System Of Procession Of Events And The Harmony Of The Whole Universe, If Only We Face The Facts, As They Say, "with Eyes Wide Open."