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flowers or fruit, whether it be in form or color or in any
other thing, whatever that might be. There is nothing that ought to be on earth
or that has come to exist there, the power of which
no star has by nature, be that power good or not,
just as God has given it. (review this)
For the firmament and the planets, refer to this figure:

But since
we have
described
the firmament
in this second part
we will speak of other matters
that happen above and
below,
and if we speak of the measure
of the firmament,
it will be to better understand its fashioning and how it was
made and proportioned, and what lies above it. I will
also talk about Paradise. [rubric:] Here ends the second part
of this book, and commences the third part
of this volume, which follows below. [/rubric]