Library / Almagestum Novum, Book IX: On the System of the World

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

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.