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all the same size. It would take too long a narration
to describe all about the size, and so we will
go through it only briefly. Still I warn you and
confirm that even the smallest of them that can be seen
is still bigger than the whole earth. Yet none of them
is as large as the sun, nor as luminous. For the sun lights up
all the others with its beauty, so noble and fine.
From the earth to the sky where the stars are is quite a
height. For they are ten thousand and fifty-five times
further than the thickness of the earth. And anyone
who knows how to count according to number and
form can discover how many inches of a man's hand
there are and how many feet and how many steps and
how many leagues and how many miles and how many
yards (see note) and how many days' journey it is from here to the
sky. Indeed it is so far that if a single man
could go there by a straight path without stopping,
and if he could go directly for twenty-five miles a day,
without taking any rest at all, it wil take him
7,157 1/2 years before he will have gone far enough