"The Earth too wants to have a soul, and the sky wants to rule over it."

"I have been tormented by the desire to understand the celestial motions."

"I have sinned many times, but I have always repented."

"I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel."

"Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines becaus…"