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sent tous plus aises qui ne sont ores et eulx mieux
chascun che quil lui fauldroit et si en demouroient
a faire moult de pechies. Mais pas ne sont si sai
ges comme furent ceulx qui par leur sens retrou
verent astronomie que tholomeus ne oublia pas
Ains y traveilla tant quil sceust et prouva le cours
des estoilles qui sont ou ciel et leur mistere tout
amont dont parle avons chi devant. Si vous ra
compterons dores en avant la granduer de la ter
re et du ciel de la lune et du soleil. des estoilles et des
planettes qui ne sont pas choses communes a tous
sicomme le roy tholomeus meismes les mesure jus
ques en abisme et le preuve par raison en ung li
vre quil compila nomme almageste quil vault au
tant adire comme haulte euvre. Si veulliez oyr que
il en dist a che que maint aultres en ont trouve qui
lont esprouve apres lui par son livre ou il donna
art de prouver regard de prouver Combien la terre
LEs re a de hault entour et despez paR
anciens philosophes me le Milieu:-
surerent le monde de toutes pars par

everyone would be better off than they are now,
and each person would have what he needed and
would still remain in a condition to commit many sins [if he wanted]. But they
are not as wise as those who by their senses rediscovered
astronomy, which Ptolemy had not fogotten. For in this he labored,
until he knew and proved the course of the stars in the sky above and
their mystery, as we have spoken about above. So now we will tell
you about the grandeur of the earth and of the sky, of the moon
and the sun, the stars and the planets, which are not things common
to all (sic), as King Ptolemy himself measured them as far as the depths
and proved by reason in a book he compiled called the Almagest,
which is is to say "the high work." So you may hear
what he says about these things, and what many others have
found out about them after he did through his book, where he
offered the skill of proving things by regarding proving [sic - see note].
[rubric:] How high the earth is round about and how thick in the
middle. [/rubric] The ancient philosophers
measured the world in all its parts by

sent tous plus aises qui ne sont ores et eulx mieux
chascun che quil lui fauldroit et si en demouroient
a faire moult de pechies. Mais pas ne sont si sai
ges comme furent ceulx qui par leur sens retrou
verent astronomie que tholomeus ne oublia pas
Ains y traveilla tant quil sceust et prouva le cours
des estoilles qui sont ou ciel et leur mistere tout
amont dont parle avons chi devant. Si vous ra
compterons dores en avant la granduer de la ter
re et du ciel de la lune et du soleil. des estoilles et des
planettes qui ne sont pas choses communes a tous
sicomme le roy tholomeus meismes les mesure jus
ques en abisme et le preuve par raison en ung li
vre quil compila nomme almageste quil vault au
tant adire comme haulte euvre. Si veulliez oyr que
il en dist a che que maint aultres en ont trouve qui
lont esprouve apres lui par son livre ou il donna
art de prouver regard de prouver Combien la terre
LEs re a de hault entour et despez paR
anciens philosophes me le Milieu:-
surerent le monde de toutes pars par

would all those be better off than they are now,
and each of them would have what he needed and
would still remain in a condition to commit many sins. [review this] But they
are not as wise as those who by their senses rediscovered
astronomy, which Ptolemy had not fogotten. For this he labored,
until he knew and proved the course of the stars in the sky above and
their mystery, as we have spoken about above. So now we will tell
you about the grandeur of the earth and of the sky, of the moon
and the sun, the stars and the planets, which are not things common
to all, as King Ptolemy himself measured them as far as the depths
and proved by reason in a book he compiled called the Almagest,
which is is to say "the high work." So you may hear
what he says about these things, and what many others have
found out about them after he did through his book, where he
offered the skill of proving things by regarding proving [sic - see note].
[rubric:] How high the earth is round about and how thick in the
middle [/rubric] The ancient philosophers
measured the world in all its parts by