Nam cum quattuor sint elementa notissima, veluti quadrifariam natura magnis partibus disterminata, sintque propria animalia terrarum, <aquarum>, flammarum, siquidem Aristoteles auctor est in fornacibus flagrantibus quaedam [propria] animalia pennulis apta volitare totumque aevum suum in igne deversari, cum eo exoriri cumque eo extingui, praeterea cum totiuga sidera, ut iam prius dictum est, sursum in aethere, id est in ipso liquidissimo ignis ardore, compareant,
For since there are four very well-known elements, nature being so to speak divided into four major parts, and since earth, water, and fire each have their own particular beings (for Aristotle states that in blazing furnaces there are certain winged creatures that fly about in fire and spend their entire lives there, arising with it and dying with it); and since moreover so many stars of every kind, as I have already said, appear above us in the ether, that is, just where the heat of fire is the most intense,
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