On the Universe

declare the safeguard of the seas. For in truth, no one will ever have rightly proven toward what goal our totality tends, who is ignorant of the origins of Gaul or Syria, and of the spirit which the King of Kings, bowing his head for us, emitted while paying our debt. For the basis of the trinity is in the Holy Land, but the middle part, leaning into the Gauls and making the end of our habitable world above the Westerreichii Austrians/Westerners, up to the shore of New Gaul, places the influx of happiness at its height, and thus the heaven, without thinking, agrees with its maker. Otherwise, I would wish to ask you, candid reader, through Jesus Christ, that you take this small work of mine in good part, and if I suffer from anything 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 forgive and excuse it. I am a human being, who judges that the world can best consist through the mutual office of excuse. Farewell. Paris, in the Gervasian schools, September 1, 1563.