Foscarini, Paolo Antonio
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An epistle to fantoni
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1661
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>And if any one would underſtand theſe Days of ſacred Scri
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pture, not only
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ſecundum nos,
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but alſo
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ſecundum naturam,
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as
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circulations of Cœleſtial Light returning to the ſelf ſame point
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from whence it did at firſt proceed; ſo as that there needs no
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reſpect to be had to Night or to ^{*} Darkneſſe, for which ſole rea
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ſon we are fain to imbrace the Interpretation of ſacred Scripture
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ſecundum nos
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; In oppoſition to this we may thus argue: If the
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ſacred Scripture be underſtood to ſpeak
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abſolutely,
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of iterated
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and ſucceſſive circulations of light, and not
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reſpectu noſtri,
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as if
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theſe words
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Evening and Morning
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had never been inſerted, which
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in their natural acceptation denote the Suns habitude to us and to
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the Earth: For that the
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Morning
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is that time when the Sun be
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gins to wax light, and to riſe above the
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Horizon
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in the Eaſt,
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and become viſible in our
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Hemiſphœre,
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and
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Evening
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is the time
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in which the Sun declines in the Weſt, and approacheth with its
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light neerer to the other oppoſite
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Horizon
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and
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Hemiſphœre,
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Day
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is a Co
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relative to the word
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Night.
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From hence therefore it evidently
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appeareth, that theſe three words
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Evening, Morning,
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and
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Day,
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cannot be underſtood of a Circulation of Light
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ſecundum ſe,
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and
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abſolutè,
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but only
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ſecundum nos,
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and
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reſpectu noſtri
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; and in
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that ſenſe indeed the
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Morning
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and
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Evening
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do make the
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Night
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and
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Day,
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Gen.
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1. 16. it is ſaid,
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God made two great Lights;
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the greater Light to rule the Day, and the leſſer Light to rule the
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Night, and the Stars.
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Where both in the Propoſition and in the
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ſpecification of it, things are ſpoken which are very diſagreeing
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to be interpreted according to the foreſaid Rules; namely, ac
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cording to the third and fourth; ſo that they may be ſaid to be
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underſtood
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according to the ſenſe of the vulgar, and the common
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way of ſpeaking,
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which is all one, as if we ſhould ſay,
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ſecundum
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apparentiam,
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and
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ſecundum nos, vel reſpectu noſtri.
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For firſt, it
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is ſaid in the Propoſition,
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And God made two great Lights
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;
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meaning by them the Sun and Moon, whereas according to the
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truth of the matter theſe are not the Greater Lights; For al
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though the Sun may be reckoned amongſt the Greater, the Moon
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may not be ſo, unleſs
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in reſpect of us.
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Becauſe amongſt
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thoſe that are abſolutely the Greater, and a little leſſer than the
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Sun (nay in a manner equal to it) and far bigger than the Moon,
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we may with great reaſon enumerate
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Saturn,
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or ſome of the
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Fixed Stars of the firſt Magnitude, ſuch as
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Canopus,
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(otherwiſe
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called
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Arcanar)
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in the end of a River; or the
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Little Dog
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in
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the mouth of the
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Great Dog
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; or the Foot of
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Orion,
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called
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Ri
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gel
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; or his
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Right ſhoulder,
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or any other of that Magnitude. </
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