(On this account, according to Plato, the understanding, which is the most sacred part of man, is in the head.) The color of it is most beauteous; for it is painted with blue; which, though little blacker than purple, yet hath such a shining quality, that by reason of the vehement efficacy of its color it cuts through such a space of air; whence it is that at so great a distance the heavens are to be contemplated.

And in this very greatness of the world the beauty of it appears.

View all things: that which contains the rest carries a beauty with it, as an animal or a tree.

Also things which are visible to us accomplish the beauty of the world.

The oblique circle called the Zodiac in heaven is with different images painted and distinguished:-- There's Cancer, Leo, Virgo, and the Claws; Scorpio, Arcitenens, and Capricorn; Amphora, Pisces, then the Ram, and Bull; The lovely pair of Brothers next succeed.
(From Aratus.) There are a thousand others that give us the suitable reflections of the beauty of the world.