On the Universe

OR ON COSMOGRAPHY.

of the lower orb. The Primum mobile first mover or tenth heaven carries everything with it daily, rising from the point of midnight to noon, and descending from noon to midnight, whence the ancient calculation of the upper and lower regions arises. Because it is necessary that all things be made in order under God, and that nothing happen entirely by chance, there are ten kinds of intelligences ordained above the heaven, all ordering those things toward a certain end; these, through the mediation of as many intelligences assigned to the ten orbs, are moved here as if into a place. Moreover, in that place where the elemental fire was supposed to be, there is an Ætherea regio ethereal region extended by 32 semidiameters of the earth from the highest region of the air to the concave of the orb of the Moon, whence the substance of temperament arrives to reconcile the elements. Therefore, all celestial influences occur in...