55. Man alone, of those that are on the earth, has discovered the doctrines of astronomy : has, while moving below in the body, and clothed with the weight of mortality, ascended up in his mind on high ; and, making the circuit of the sun, the moon, and the stars, foretells¹ what shall come to pass, as he also does the eclipses of the moon, the vicissitudes of the seasons, and the changes of times.