Not medieval, as commonly supposed, but from Camille Flammarion's 1888 L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire: a missionary pokes his head through the celestial sphere and beholds the machineries of heaven.
Imagine that, o thou pre-Copernican itinerant friar: to walk, trusty staff in hand, the the very edge of the world, to thrust one's head through the firmament, which once had looked so far away but now is revealed to be but a membrane betwixt this quotidian world and the numinous realm beyond; and then to gaze directly on the celestial Ptolemaic epicycles, to hear the music of the spheres, to which all creation dances.
Links: Heliocentrism, epicycles
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