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sembleroit plus petite que la moindre estoille que
estans ca jus en terre len voit la sus en tiel et fust
len sur une montaigne ou en une vallee. Et par
che poeut on bien savoir que tost comment mouvoir
le ciel a che quil lui convient faire ung tour alenvi
ron de la terre que de jour que de nuit. sicomme len
poent apperchevoir par le soleil que au matin nous
veons lever vers orient et couchier vers occident Et
le lendemain au plus matin nous le povons reve
oir en orient. Car lors il a parfait ung tour que
len clame jour naturel lequel contient en lui jour
et nuit. Ainsi va et vient le soleil lequel jamais na
ra repoz ne ja ne finera daler avec le ciel. aussi com
me le clou qui est fichie en une roe le quel tourne
quant elle tournoie. Mais pour che quil a mouve
ment contre le tour du firmament. Si vous dirons
une aultre rayson. Se une mousche aloit entour
une roe qui se tournast si que la mousche alast en
contre la roe le menroit avec elle. Si advendroit
que la roe auroit fait maints tours ainchois que
la mousche eust fait ung tour et quelle eust alle

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seem smaller to him than the smallest star that
someone sees, if that person is on the earth
looking up at it, whether he is on a mountain
or in a valley. And by this one may know how
quickly the sky moves in order for it to be able
to make a full circle around the earth in one day
and one night. We can see this when the sun
rises in the east in the morning and sets in the west.
And the next day we see it once again in the
east. For it completes a circle in what
is called a natural day, which comprises a day
and a night. In this way the sun comes and
goes without ever resting, nor will it stop from
going along with the heavens. This is just like
a nail that is stuck in a wheel, which
turns when the wheel turns. But why does
does the sun (?) move opposite to the turning of the firmament?
I will give you another reason. If a fly traveled
along a turning wheel, if it was went in the opposite direction to
the wheel it would still be carried along with it.
But whereas the wheel would have turned
many times, the fly would only have turned once
and it would have gone

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sembleroit plus petite que la moindre estoille que
estans ca jus en terre len voit la sus en tiel et fust
len sur une montaigne ou en une vallee. Et par
che poeut on bien savoir que tost comment mouvoir
le ciel a che quil lui convient faire ung tour alenvi
ron de la terre que de jour que de nuit. sicomme len
poent apperchevoir par le soleil que au matin nous
veons lever vers orient et couchier vers occident Et
le lendemain au plus matin nous le povons reve
oir en orient. Car lors il a parfait ung tour que
len clame jour naturel lequel contient en lui jour
et nuit. Ainsi va et vient le soleil lequel jamais na
ra repoz ne ja ne finera daler avec le ciel. aussi com
me le clou qui est fichie en une roe le quel tourne
quant elle tournoie. Mais pour che quil a mouve
ment contre le tour du firmament. Si vous dirons
une aultre rayson. Se une mousche aloit entour
une roe qui se tournast si que la mousche alast en
contre la roe le menroit avec elle. Si advendroit
que la roe auroit fait maints tours ainchois que
la mousche eust fait ung tour et quelle eust alle

xli

seem smaller to him than the least star that
is above the earth seems to someone on earth
looking up at it, whether that person was on a mountain
or in a valley. And by this one may know how
quickly the sky moves in order for it to be able
to make a full circle around the earth in one day
and one night. We can see this when the sun
rises in the east in the morning and sets in the west.
And the next day we see it once again in the
east. For it completes a circle in what
is called a natural day, which comprises a day
and a night. In this way the sun comes and
goes without ever resting, nor will it stop from
going along with the heavens. This is just like
a nail that is stuck in a wheel, which
turns when the wheel turns. But why does
does the sun (?) move opposite to the turning of the firmament?
I will give you another reason. If a fly traveled
along a turning wheel, if it was went in the opposite direction to
the wheel it would still be carried along with it.
But whereas the wheel would have turned
many times, the fly would only have turned once
and it would have gone