Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IX, Chapter II, Sec. 3
“The head is borne towards the heavens and has two lights, as it were the sun and moon.”
As quoted by J. J. McEvoy, The philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1982) p. 372.
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