Apotelesmatika: Beş Gezici Yıldız ve Göğün Ekseni

Five stars, most brilliant, wander through the cycle of the Zodiac, traversing the cosmos, and the figures which the races of mortals have named "wanderers", of these I shall remember in my dear song. A great axis is driven through the middle of the heaven, immovable, invisible to the eyes of those who behold it, which turns quickly and continuously around the whole earth and the unharvested sea, and never ceases. Two poles of this axis stand opposite, unshaken, the one fixed upon the icy blasts of the North and near the head of the small Cynosura or the Bear; the other stands in the wet South; but the one lies high above the earth, while the Southern one is hidden beneath the ground. Many and infinite circles within the heaven are turned, which the sphere itself always creates as the stars move along their infinite path. Of all these, there are nine supreme circles: two are visible and seen by the eyes, the others are known only to the minds of men.