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[Commentary:
This letter from William Lower to Harriot contains Lower's excited reactions to Siderius nuncius (1610). He also refers to Kepler's De stella nova (1606).
He repeats requests for help with questions on Kepler and Viète. Such questions were posed in the letter in Add MS 6789, f. 437 to 428v, suggesting that this letter is the immediate successor to that ]
He repeats requests for help with questions on Kepler and Viète. Such questions were posed in the letter in Add MS 6789, f. 437 to 428v, suggesting that this letter is the immediate successor to that ]
I gave your letter a double welcome, both be-
cause it came from you and contained newes of
that strange malaze; althoug that which I craved,
you have deferred till another time. me thinkes
my Diligent Galileas hath done more in his three-
fold discourse then Magellane in opening the straights
to the South sea or the Dutch [???] that weare eaten
by beares in nova Zimbla. I am sure with more
ease & saftie to him selfe & more pleasure to me.
I am so affected with this newes as I wish som-
mer were past that I might observe this pheno-
menes also. in the moone I had formerlie observed
a strange spotednesse al over, but had no conceite
that anie parte therof mighte be shadowes; since I
had observed those degrees in the darker partes, of which
the lighter sorte had some resemblance of shadinesse
but that they grow shorter or longer I cannot yet
[???]. there are three starres in orion below the
three on his girdle so much together as they appeared
about, 4. yeares since I was a writing you newes
out of Cornwall of a [???] of a strange phenomenon
but asking some that had better eyes then myself
they told me, they were three starres lying close
together in a right line. thes starres with my
Cylinder this last winter I often observed, and it
was longe er I beleved that I saw them, they
appearinge through the Cylinder so farre & dis-
tinctlie asunder that without I can not yet dis-
sern. the discourse of this made me then observe
the, 7. starres also in, 8. which before I always ra-
ther beleved to be, 7. then such could nomber
them. thorugh my Cylinder I saw thes also plaine
lie and farre asunder, and more then, 7. to, but be-
cause I was preiudge with that number, I beleved
not myne eyes nor was carefull to observe how
manie; the next winter now that you have opened
mine eyes you shall heare much from me of this
cause it came from you and contained newes of
that strange malaze; althoug that which I craved,
you have deferred till another time. me thinkes
my Diligent Galileas hath done more in his three-
fold discourse then Magellane in opening the straights
to the South sea or the Dutch [???] that weare eaten
by beares in nova Zimbla. I am sure with more
ease & saftie to him selfe & more pleasure to me.
I am so affected with this newes as I wish som-
mer were past that I might observe this pheno-
menes also. in the moone I had formerlie observed
a strange spotednesse al over, but had no conceite
that anie parte therof mighte be shadowes; since I
had observed those degrees in the darker partes, of which
the lighter sorte had some resemblance of shadinesse
but that they grow shorter or longer I cannot yet
[???]. there are three starres in orion below the
three on his girdle so much together as they appeared
about, 4. yeares since I was a writing you newes
out of Cornwall of a [???] of a strange phenomenon
but asking some that had better eyes then myself
they told me, they were three starres lying close
together in a right line. thes starres with my
Cylinder this last winter I often observed, and it
was longe er I beleved that I saw them, they
appearinge through the Cylinder so farre & dis-
tinctlie asunder that without I can not yet dis-
sern. the discourse of this made me then observe
the, 7. starres also in, 8. which before I always ra-
ther beleved to be, 7. then such could nomber
them. thorugh my Cylinder I saw thes also plaine
lie and farre asunder, and more then, 7. to, but be-
cause I was preiudge with that number, I beleved
not myne eyes nor was carefull to observe how
manie; the next winter now that you have opened
mine eyes you shall heare much from me of this
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