CIC. But what is the meaning of that figure of the sun, with a circle
inside and another outside, with the legend "Circuit."
TANS. The meaning of this I am certain I should never have understood if
I had not heard it from the designer of it himself. Now you must know
that "Circuit" has reference to the movement the sun makes round the
circle which is drawn inside and outside, in order to signify that the
movement both makes and is made; and hence, as a consequence, the sun is
to be found in every part of those circles; so that, if he moves and is
moved, and is over the whole circumference of the circle equally, then
you find in him both movement and rest.
CIC. This I understood in the dialogues on the infinite universe and the
innumerable worlds, where it is declared that the divine wisdom is
extremely mobile, as Solomon said, and also that the same is most
stable, as all those declare who know. Now go on and make me understand
the proposition.
TANS. It means that [D]his sun is not like this one, which is commonly
believed to go round the earth with the daily movement in twenty-four
hours, and with the planetary movement in twelve months, and by which he
causes the four seasons of the year to be felt, according as he is found
to be in the four cardinal points of the zodiac; but he is such an one,
that, being the ethereal eternity itself, and consequently an entire and
complete totality, he contains the winter, the spring, the summer, the
autumn, together with the day and the night, for he is all and for all,
in all points and places.
[D] Il suo sole.