Copernicus and Hermeticism

Accordingly [considering the sun's central position], it is not foolish that it has been called the lamp of the universe, or its mind, or its ruler. [It is] Trismegistus' visible God...

Copernicus, Nicolaus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, 2nd ed, Basel: Ex Officina Henricpetrina, 1566, p. 9 (facing).
(translation due to Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Forbidden Universe, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011, p. 12.)