The Summary of Physics Restored

30Not without probability, some philosophers placed the soul of the world in the sun and the sun in the midst of the universe. For the reasoning of equity and nature seems to require that the solar body stand at an equal distance from the source and origin of created light, namely the empyrean heaven, and from the dark centre, earth, which are the extremes of the whole fabric. Thus the world's torch, as an intermediate nature reconciling both extremes, may have its seat in the middle, where it can more readily receive immense stores of powers from the highest pole and transmit them an equal distance to the lowest.