haec est naturae facies: sic mundus et ipse in convexa volans teretis facit esse figuras stellarum; solisque orbem lunaeque rotundum aspicimus tumido quaerentis corpore lumen, quod globus obliquos totus non accipit ignes.
This is the shape of nature: so even the universe, itself in circular movement, gives round shapes to the stars; round, we see, is the orb of the Sun, and round is the orb of the Moon, which looks in vain for light for its rotund body inasmuch as the suns oblique rays do not fall on the whole of its globe.
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