This page is dominated by a full-page framed illustration divided into two horizontal sections. In the upper half, the Sun is personified as a young man with a crown of light rays, driving a four-horse chariot across a fiery red background. In the lower half, the Moon is shown as a figure with a crescent-shaped headdress, driving a chariot pulled by two oxen against a deep blue night sky.

On the Heavenly Bodies

Since the Sun is of a fiery nature, it grows hotter through its perpetual motion, by which it circles the globe in the space of one day and night. God established different courses, locations, and times for the Sun, lest its daily heat consume everything if it always lingered in one place. If the Sun remained fixed in the sky, all days and nights would be equal. The Sun, however, holds its path through the midday; when it has come to its setting in the west, it travels through unknown paths beneath the earth and returns again to the east.

Poets claim that the Sun is an eye, and that it is larger than the earth. Among the ancients, the Sun is figuratively depicted as a boy, because it rises daily and is born with new light. He is shown having a quadriga quadriga: a chariot drawn by four horses, representing the four seasons or the four parts of the day of horses and the outpouring of a biga biga: a two-horse chariot, often associated with the Moon or the rapid movement of the heavens when he is driven with a rapid course through the ether. It is a fable that the Sun was once called Apollo or Titan original: "titana". Many have written about his son, Phaethon, who set the lands on fire ...