Dialexis de novae et prius incognitae stellae inusitatae magnitudinis & splendidissimi luminis apparitione, & de eiusdem stellae vero loco constituendo ...

Various opinions concerning this Star are recited, and they are refuted. Chapter 2.

A decorative drop cap 'V' features floral and scrollwork patterns. VARIOUS opinions are scattered in booklets published publicly regarding this new star, and the minds of many have been so distracted in opposite directions by that variety of opinions that this remarkable work of God's providence has almost been held in contempt. I, therefore, having recited the opinions of others, have attempted to respond to each, to rebuke errors, and to silence the arrogant voices of some, not indeed from a desire to contradict (from which my nature has always recoiled), but for the sake of investigating and asserting the truth. I wish to lead the good minds of many, which have been imbued with false persuasion, to embrace and retain in rightful possession the knowledge of the truth, and to render this excellent gift of Divine providence more celebrated by my stammering, so that it may never escape from the memory of men.

The opinion of Raimundus is refuted. There are those who contend that this star is not new, but old, and was created at the primeval origin of things, and is therefore that very one which is eleventh in number in the image of Cassiopeia. Hannibal Raimundus of Verona was the first of all to spread and undertake to defend this opinion, and he has infatuated many with his view in a booklet published about that star, in which, however, besides the trifles and foolishness he brings forward, he does not fear to argue that all others who think differently are in error, too boldly and presumptuously. We shall therefore examine the reasons for his proposal with philosophical freedom. He produces the first of these from authority, and from the concordant consent of all, which, while he rattles it off with merely a noise of words—and those unpolished, incongruous, and barbaric—he meanwhile does not produce or name a single author, unless we understand all those to be absorbed into one Raimundus, and that a single Raimundus is equivalent to all of them.