quamvis nonnullis placeat terram breviorem dicere circuitu quam sit pulcherrimus ille circulus, et flammas inmensi sideris ultra telluris normam porrecto extendere gyro, numne etiam caeli minor et contractior orbis, cuius planitiem longo transmittere tractu circinus excurrens meta interiore laborat? ille Deus verus, quo non est grandior ulla materies, qui fine caret, qui praesidet omni naturae, qui cuncta simul concludit et inplet.
Though some hold that the earth is shorter in circumference than is that noble circle, and that the vast stars fires spread over a ring that is wider than the measure of the world, yet is the circle of the heavens also smaller and more confined, whose surface a compass, stretching out from its inner mark, for all its long reach is taxed to cross? He is the true God, than whom no material thing is greater, who is without limit, who governs all nature and at once bounds and fills all things.
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