In the middle of all sits the Sun enthroned. In this most beautiful temple, could we place this luminary in any better position from which he can illuminate the whole at once?
Heliocentric model of the solar system
From 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium', Book I, Chapter 10
1543
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