On the Universe

OF THE UNIVERSE.

Since, therefore, in this temple of nature the Cosmopoeia the creation of the world is set before our eyes in such a way that the occupation of the human intellect must remain in the origins of things and their place and time, until we recognize God—who is the cause and the reason for all things—to His praise and honor as much as can be done, it is necessary that we be occupied in this study as far as we conceive the Beginning, and heaven and earth, at least in a general comprehension. Now indeed, because very few philosophers have striven to convert the origins and causes of things they have treated into the praise and love of providence, I have striven to translate the Book of Formation from the Hebrews into Latin, and to illustrate it with a commentary: by which one, both sacred doctrines and those of the Platonists or Pythagoreans in the Timaeus a dialogue by Plato concerning the origin of the universe