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

But these, just as the former, are empty and most alien to the truth. For it is most evident that, besides his eleventh star, another, slightly lower one is given toward the fourth of Cassiopeia, which, even if it could be seen with difficulty under the beginning of the appearance of the new star when it was shining with the most ample light, because it was dimmed by its rays, yet subsequently, as the light decreased, it was clearly, perspicuously, and distinctly seen, and even now it appears. And that this very one is the eleventh is most clearly confirmed both by the obscurity of its light (inasmuch as it is placed at the fourth magnitude) and by its distance from the other more illustrious stars in Cassiopeia, found through the measurement of the ray and also through counting. So, it is necessary to suspect that Raimundus was either struck with blindness, or had eyes covered with a cataract, when he was observing those celestial fires from the little window of his room, since he judged the clearest light to be shadows; or perhaps he brought a mind corrupted by ambition, which could not be capable of such light and of an admirable omen, so that he might acknowledge it to be a truly new work of God. And hence it happened that, overwhelmed by the majesty of the brilliance, he grew dim toward it, no differently than a bat toward the clearest light of the Sun, and could not distinguish the new one from that which was created by God on the fourth day at the beginning of the created world, along with the other stars in the firmament. Furthermore, he confirms that same reason of his with an exposition of the distance of his star from the polar star, which he says is 25 degrees and 58 minutes. But that confirmation is not only weak, but also vain and inept. For besides the fact that he does not adapt it to the observed distance, it is also falsely established, in which he exhibits great and shameful

The shameful ignorance of Raimundus.