ABSTRACT
IF YOU take in your hands the great work of Copernicus and open it at the page with the amazing diagram which showed for the first time the Sun at the centre and the Earth and the other planets revolving round it, you will see, just after the diagram, the following words (translated from the Latin):
In the midst of all resides the Sun. For who could place this great light in any better position in this most beautiful temple [of the world] than that from whence it may illumine all at once? So that it is called by some the lamp of the world; by others the mind; by others the ruler. And Trismegistus calls it the visible god.
