¶ Of the distinction of hea∣uen, Cap. 2. NOw putte we our handes by helpe of Christ, in describe some properties of heauen, & of the parts therof▪ for heauen is the place and dwelling of An∣gels, and of good men saith▪ and as holy men tell, one heuen is seene, and another heauen is unseene. The heauen that is seene, is many manner wise as the Glose saith, super Deut. 0.ibi., Loo heauen is the Lords thy Gods, and hea∣uen of heauens. Heauens be seaven, na∣med in this manner; Aereum, Ethereū, Olimpeum, Igneum, Firmamentum. A∣queum, Emperium celum, heuen of An∣gels. The heuen that is called Aereum, is the middle place of the roundnesse of the aire, that is not full of great & boyst∣ous vapours of water and of earth, and so that part of the aire; that is more pure and cleane, and lesse medled with the ne∣ther qualities: for the purenesse & clean∣nesse thereof, and cleernesse of kinde, it is called heauen, as it is said Mat. 13. The foules of heauen eate it, &c. Celum ethe∣reum, as some men say, it is yt is called, the ouermost part of the aire, yt is nigh ioyned to the fierie roundnesse, and is called Ethereum: for it is bright and shining. For that part betweene the fire and the aire is nigh the fire, and recey∣ueth of the fire light and shining, for E∣thereus in Greeke, is named brightnesse, either shining as Isidore saith. And Coelū igneum, firie heauen, as some men meane, is the middle of the round∣nesse of the sphere of fire: and that is for the purenesse, subtilnesse, highnesse, and working, that the fire hath passing other elements, and for other properties, that the fire hath for nighnesse to the round∣nesse of the Planets. And Gregory saith vpon that place of Iob. Behold and see Etherea, &c. By that name Etherea is vn∣derstood all the space yt is from ye Moone, euen to the stars yt be night, in ye which space us roundnesses & circles of ye seauen Planets. Séeke within De Ethere, what Marcianus meaneth thervpon. Alexan∣der ordeineth the seuen heauens, & saith in the manner: The first heuen giueth light in one manner wise, & is not moo∣ued, and as called Celum : the second also saith giueth in one man∣ner wise lyght, and is called Celum: A∣queum as it were of kinde of water or of christall stone. The third heuen giueth light, not lyke bright in euery part, & is moued as the heauen of starres. The fourth heauen receiueth light without heate, and is called: Olim∣picum. The fifth receiueth light in heat, and is called Clum igneum as ye fourth heauen. The sixt receiueth light, and is ioyned with the other part, and is called Celum Ethereum, bright shining hea∣uen. The seuenth receiueth lyght, and is ioyned with the nether part, & is named Celum Aereum, of the kind of aire: and so it séemeth, that they call Olympium the space of the roundnesse of the Pla∣nets: for that space is alway light and shining. And the firmament they cal the first heauen and the last, as philosophers meane: in the ouermost part wherof be the bodies of starres. For Philosophers set but onely one heauen. But as Basili∣us saith in Pxomeron, the Philosophers would rather gnaw and fret their owne tongues, then they would assent, yt there be many heauens. Aristotle in libro de causis elementorum, describeth that hea∣uen that is called Firmamentum, in this manner. Heauen (he saith) is the fift E∣lement, seuered from the nether Ele∣ments, and distinguished by propertie of kinde: for it is not heauie, for thea it might come downward: nor lyght, for then it should stye and moue vpwarde. For if it wer one of yt foure elements, or compowned of the foure, then corruption might come therin in all, or in some part therof. And as it is sayd there: The crea∣tor set it to be well and cause of genera∣tion and coruption. And therefore that heauen is kindly mouable without rest: and the mouing thereof is rounde about the middle, vpon a lyne that is named Axis, that standeth thee pight vnmoua∣ble betwéene two starres, that be called Polys, that be the most South starre, & the most North starre: the which North starre we call the shipinans starre. 0