Reasons for the belief that the earth is moved: 1. The sun, the most excellent, the greatest and the midmost star, rightly stands still like a king while all the other stars with the earth swing round it. 2. That you believe that the heavens revolve is due to ocular deception similar to that of a man on a ship leaving shore. 3. That Joshua bade the sun stand still Moses wrote for the people in accordance with the popular misconception. 4. As the planets are each a special created thing in the heavens, so the earth is a similar creation and similarly revolves. 5. The sun fitly rests at the center as the heart does in the middle of the human body. 6. Since the earth has in itself its especial _centrum_, a stone or an arrow falls freely out of the air again to its own _centrum_ as do all earthly things. 7. The earth can move five miles in a second more readily than the sun can go forty miles in the same time. And similarly on both sides.[325] [Footnote 322: Schotto: _Organum Mathematicum_ (1667).] [Footnote 323: Voight: _Der Kunstgünstigen Einfalt Mathematischer Raritäten Erstes Hundert_. (Hamburg, 1667).] [Footnote 324: Voight: _op. cit._: 28.] [Footnote 325: Ibid: 30-31.] Another writer preferring the Tychonic scheme was Longomontanus, whose _Astronomica Danica_ (Amsterdam, 1640) upheld this theory because it "obviates the absurdities of the Copernican hypothesis and most aptly corresponds to celestial appearances," and also because it is "midway between that and the Ptolemaic one."[326] Even though he speaks of the "apparent motion of the sun," he attributed diurnal motion to the heavens, and believed the earth was at the center of the universe because (1), from the account of the Creation, the heaven and the earth were first created, and what could be more likely than that the heavens should fill the space between the center (the earth) and the circumference? (2) and because of the incredibly enormous interval between the sphere of the fixed stars and the earth necessitated by Copernican doctrine.[327] [Footnote 326: Longomontanus: _Op. cit._: 162.] [Footnote 327: Longomontanus: _Op. cit._: 158.]