| Page 186LE pur air est dessus le feu qui pourprent
son lieu jusques au ciel. En celui air na
point dobscurete. car de pure purete fu
fait il resplendist et reluist si clerement que len ny
pourroit riens comparer En celui air sont sept estoil-
les qui font leur cours alentour de la terre. Lesquelles
sont moult nettes et cleres et sont nommees les sept
planettes dont lune sur laultre est assize. et en telle
guise ordonnee quil ya plus de lune a laultre quil na
de terre jusques a la lune. ou il a plus loings quinze
tant que fonte la terre nest grande. Et court chascu
ne par miracle ou firmament et fait son cercle lun
grant et laultre petit selon che quelle est et siet plus
bas. Car de tant quelle fait son cours plus pres de terre
tant est il plus court et plus tost a parfait son cours
que celle qui en est plus loings. Car a dire pour vous
donner a entendre par bonne maniere que qui feroit
ung point en une paroit et dun compas feist pluseurs
cercles alentour de celui point tousjours lun plus large
que laultre. Celui qui seroit plus pres du point seroit
le moindre de aultres et plus seroit son cours petit.
TranslationThe pure air is above the fire, and its place extends
as far as heaven. In this air there is
no darkness. For it was made of pure purity and
it shines and glitters so clearly that nothing
can be compared to it. In this air there are seven stars,
which make their way around the earth. These stars
are very clean and clear and are called the seven
planets, situated one above another. They are ordered
in such a fashion there is more space from one to the next
than the distance from the earth to the moon, a distance that is fifteen times
longer than the size of the earth. Each of the planets
runs its course in the firmament by a miracle, its circle
being larger or smaller depending on how high or low it is.
For the orbits of those closest to the earth are smaller
and quicker to complete than those that are further away.
To explain this in a way that you can understand, one could
make a hole in a wall and draw several circles with a compass
around this point, each of them larger than the one before.
The one that is closes to the hole would be the least of
the others and its circle would be the smallest. | Page 186LE pur air est dessus le feu qui pourprent
son lieu jusques au ciel. En celui air na
point dobscurete. car de pure purete fu
fait il resplendist et reluist si clerement que len ny
pourroit riens comparer En celui air sont sept estoil-
les qui font leur cours alentour de la terre. Lesquelles
sont moult nettes et cleres et sont nommees les sept
planettes dont lune sur laultre est assize. et en telle
guise ordonnee quil ya plus de lune a laultre quil na
de terre jusques a la lune. ou il a plus loings quinze
tant que fonte la terre nest grande. Et court chascu
ne par miracle ou firmament et fait son cercle lun
grant et laultre petit selon che quelle est et siet plus
bas. Car de tant quelle fait son cours plus pres de terre
tant est il plus court et plus tost a parfait son cours
que celle qui en est plus loings. Car a dire pour vous
donner a entendre par bonne maniere que qui feroit
ung point en une paroit et dun compas feist pluseurs
cercles alentour de celui point tousjours lun plus large
que laultre. Celui qui seroit plus pres du point seroit
le moindre de aultres et plus seroit son cours petit.
TranslationThe pure air is above the fire, and its place extends
as far as heaven. In this air there is
no darkness. For it was made of pure purity and
it shines and glitters so clearly that nothing
can be compared to it. In this air there are seven stars,
which make their way around the earth. These stars
are very clean and clear and are called the seven
planets, situated one above another. They are ordered
in such a fashing there is more space from one to the next
than it is from the earth to the moon, which is fifteen times
longer than the size of the earth. Each of the planets
runs its course in the firmament by a miracle, its circle
being larger or smaller depending on how high or low it is.
For the orbit of those closest to the earth is smaller
and quicker to compleat than those that are further away.
To explain this in a way that you can understand, one could
make a hole in a wall and draw several circles with a compass
around this point, each of them larger than the one before.
The one that is closes to the hole would be the least of
the others and its circle would be the smallest. |
EN