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Hanc igitur in stellis constantiam, hanc tantam tam variis cursibus in omni aeternitate convenientiam temporum non possum intellegere sine mente ratione consilio. quae cum in sideribus inesse videamus,
non possumus ea ipsa non in deorum numero reponere.
Nec vero eae stellae quae inerrantes vocantur non
significant eandem mentem atque prudentiam. quarum
est cotidiana conveniens constansque conversio, nec
habent aetherios cursus neque caelo inhaerentes, ut
plerique dicunt physicae rationis ignari; non est enim
aetheris ea natura ut vi sua stellas conplexa contorqueat, nam tenuis ac perlucens et aequabili calore suffusus aether non satis aptus ad stellas continendas videtur;
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