Editing Solar deity (section)

==== Modern influence ====
[[Copernicus]] describing the Sun mythologically, drawing from Greco-Roman examples:
{{blockquote|In the middle of all sits the Sun on his throne. In this loveliest of temples, could we place the luminary in any more appropriate place so that he may light the whole simultaneously. Rightly is he called the Lamp, the Mind, the Ruler of the Universe: Hermes Trismegistus entitles him the God Visible. Sophocles' Electra names him the All-seeing. Thus does the Sun sit as upon a royal dais ruling his children the planets which circle about him.<ref name="Gillispie-1960">{{cite book |last=Gillispie |first=Charles Coulston |author-link=Charles Coulston Gillispie |title=The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas |year=1960 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=0-691-02350-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/edgeofobjectivit00char |url-access=limited |page=[https://archive.org/details/edgeofobjectivit00char/page/26 26]}}</ref>}}