By these three preliminary moves:

1. the shifting of the system's centre into the sun;
2. the proof that the orbital planes do not "oscillate" in space, and
3. the abolition of uniform motion,

Kepler had cleared away a considerable amount of the rubbish that had obstructed progress since Ptolemy, and made the Copernican system so clumsy and unconvincing. In that system Mars ran on five circles; after the clean-up, a single eccentric circle must be sufficient — if the orbit was really a circle. He felt confident that victory was just around the corner ...

Arthur Koestler
"The Watershed: The Giving of the Laws"
The Sleepwalkers  (1959)
A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

  
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty ...

Venus salutes him with this fair good-morrow:
'O thou clear god, and patron of all light,
From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow
The beauteous influence that makes him bright ...'

William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis, 855-856, 859-862

  
The Stoics held that planet [Luna, the Moon] to be mixed of fire and air, and in their opinion, the variety of its composition, caused her spots. Anaxagoras thought all the stars to be of an earthly nature, mixed with some fire, and as for the Sunne, he affirmed it to be nothing else but a fiery stone; for which latter opinion, the Athenians sentenced him to death; those zealous Idolaters counting it a great blasphemy, to make their God a stone, whereas not withstanding, they were too senseless in their adoration of Idolls, as to make a stone their God.

John Wilkins
The Discovery of a World in the Moone
or, A Discourse Tending to Prove
that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet  (1638)