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Chaldean theologians · thesis 26.6

Thesis 26.6

Latin

Quicquid est a luna supra, purum est lumen, et illud est substan/tia orbium mundanorum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17149; 1486 print folio <12r/12v>

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486, 1487 prum

1486 and 1487 read 'prum' for 'purum' (farmer1998:17153); the compositor's line-break hyphenation of 'substantia' as 'substan/tia' is a repair, not a word.

English

Whatever exists above the moon is pure light, and that is the substance of the worldly spheres.

Sense checked against farmer1998:17208.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17208; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to the opinion of the Chaldean theologians (section 26 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports