At qua fulgentis caelum consurgit ad Arctos, omnia quae summo despectant sidera mundo nec norunt obitus unoque in vertice mutant in diversa situm caelumque et sidera torquent, aera per gelidum tenuis deducitur axis libratumque regit diverso cardine mundum; sidereus circa medium quem volvitur orbis aetheriosque rotat cursus, immotus at ille in binas Arctos magni per inania mundi perque ipsum terrae derectus constitit orbem.
Now where heaven reaches its culmination in the shining Bears, which from the summit of the sky look down on all the stars and know no setting and, shifting their opposed stations about the same high point, set sky and stars in rotation, from there an insubstantial axis runs down through the wintry air and controls the universe, keeping it pivoted at opposite poles: it forms the middle about which the starry sphere revolves and wheels its heavenly flight, but is itself without motion and, drawn straight through the empty spaces of the great sky to the two Bears and through the very globe of the Earth, stands fixed.
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