Page "Celestial spheres" Paragraph 25

The English almanac maker, Thomas Digges, delineated the spheres of the new cosmological system in his Perfit Description of the Caelestiall Orbes … ( 1576 ).

Here he arranged the " orbes " in the new Copernican order, expanding one sphere to carry " the globe of mortalitye ", the Earth, the four elements, and the Moon ; and expanding the starry sphere infinitely upward to encompass all the stars, and also to serve as " the court of the Great God, the habitacle of the elect, and of the coelestiall angelles.