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Book I.
$\scriptstyle {\underbrace {\quad \quad \quad } }$its own Value upon every Thing. We ſhall be leſs apt to admire what this World calls Great, ſhall nobly deſpiſe thoſe Trifles the generality of Men ſet their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of ſuch Earths inhabited and adorned as well as our own. And we ſhall worſhip and reverence that God the Maker of all theſe things; we ſhall admire and adore his Providence and wonderful Wiſdom which diſplayed and manifeſted all over the Univerſe, to the Confuſion of thoſe who would have the Earth and all things formed by the ſhuffling Concourſe of Atoms, or to be without beginning. But to come to our own Purpoſe.

Copernicus’s Syſtem explained.And now becauſe the chief Argument for the Proof of what we intend will be taken from the Diſpoſition of the Planets, among which without doubt, the Earth muſt be counted in the Copernican Syſtem, I ſhall here firſt of all draw two Figures. The firſt is a Deſcription of