Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

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If there were any Light proper to the Moon,
then
would that Planet appear Brighteſt when
ſhe
is Eclipſed in her Perige being neareſt to
to
the Earth, and ſo conſequently more Ob-
ſcure
and Duskiſh when ſhe is in her Apoge,
or
fartheſt from it;
the Reaſon is, becauſe the
nearer
any Enlightned Body comes to the
Sight
, by ſo much the more ſtrong are the
Species
, and the better perceiv'd.
This Se-
quel
is granted by ſome of our Adverſaries,
and
they are the very Words of Noble Tycho,
22De nova
ſtella
. lib. 1.
c
. 10.
Si Luna genuino gauderet lumine, utique cum in
umbra
terre eſſet, illud non emitteret, ſed evi-
dentiùs
exereret;
omne enim lumen in tenebris,
plus
ſplendit cum alio majore fulgore non prœpe-
ditur
.
If the Moon had any Light of her own,
then
ſhe would not loſe it in the Earths Sha-
dow
, but rather ſhine more Clearly, ſince eve-
ry
Light appears greater in the Dark, when
it
is not hindred by a more perſpicuous Bright-
neſs
.

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