Dialexis de novae et prius incognitae stellae inusitatae magnitudinis & splendidissimi luminis apparitione, & de eiusdem stellae vero loco constituendo ...

But it is also plainly delirious to attribute a power of feeling to celestial bodies, and thus affects, such as that they are delighted by worship and adoration. This position was set forth by us, and the arrangement of this new star in relation to the others appeared and persisted in that same state for many months. Although many things are found concerning this radiance which can deservedly draw men into admiration (such as that it shone for many months with an unchanging light, that it was fixed to one point of the sky from which it did not recede even by a hair's breadth, and that it also held exactly the meridian of the sky with the colure of the equinoxes), yet this too must be considered neither light nor small: that it became known first of all to rough and illiterate men.