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This sun-centered cosmic section representes the first published defense of Copernicus in England, printed in a work of meteorology. The Earth carries its meteorological regions of water, air and fire along with it, as a single “globe of mortalitye.” The fixed stars, each far larger than the Sun, extend “infinitely up” in a “Pallace of Foelicitye.” Leonard Digges wrote this prognostication as an “astro-meteorology,” an early modern version of the Farmer’s Almanac, which attempted to provide annual guidance for agricultural activities and other events on the basis of meteorological and astronomical patterns. Thomas, his son, published an updated edition in which he substituted the Copernican system for his father’s reliance upon the Ptolemaic. An appendix includes the first English translation of Book 1 of Copernicus’ On the Revolutions.
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