Section I — On the Substance and Certain Accidents of the Heavens and of the Celestial Bodies
Chapter IX, Whether the Heaven is Infinite, and whether [it is] of a Spherical Figure
Chapter IX, Whether the Heaven is Infinite, and whether [it is] of a Spherical Figure — Almagestum Novum, Book IX: On the System of the World Almagestum Novum, Book IX: On the System of the World
Concerning the former question [whether it is infinite], so far as it pertains to the Astronomer, I shall say the choicer [things] in Section 4, ch. 5, num. 19; but concerning the latter—that is, concerning the figure—see the same ch. 5, num. 2, and Pliny’s arguments (bk. 2, ch. 2), whose words we shall report in that ch. 5, num. 20. Meanwhile, let us pass on to other [matters].
[END OF SECTION I.] Section II, “On the Movers and Motions of the Heavens” (De Motoribus et Motibus Caelorum), begins on printed p. 247 / PDF 282.
Giovanni Battista Riccioli, S.J., “Chapter IX, Whether the Heaven is Infinite, and whether [it is] of a Spherical Figure,” in Almagestum Novum, Book IX: On the System of the World,
English translation, Mind of the Church,
https://mindofthechurch.com/works/almagestum-novum-9/009-s1-chapter-ix-whether-the-heaven-is-infinite-and-whether-it-is-of-a-sph/.
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