Book on the Universe

...to declare the fortification of the sea. For in truth, no one has ever rightly proven toward what goal our universality tends, who has been ignorant of the origins of either Gaul or Syria, and with what bowed head the King of kings shed his spirit, suffering for us. For the base of the triplicity is in the Holy Land; the middle, however, is the first [part] falling toward the Gauls and making the end of our habitable world upon the Austrians original: "Vvesterreichios", setting the influx of the highest happiness into the coast of New Gaul often used by Postel to refer to North America, and thus the sky consents unknowingly to its creator. Furthermore, I would like to ask you, candid reader, through Jesus Christ, that you take this small work of mine in good part, and if I suffer anything human a reference to the Latin phrase "humanum est errare" or "to err is human", in these and in any of my other writings, since I desire all things to be subject to the judgment of the Catholic Church, you might deign to pardon and excuse it. For I am a man, who judges that the world can best consist through the mutual duty of excuse. Farewell. Paris, in the Gervasian schools, 1 September 1563.