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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3. It is Opacous, not Tranſparent or Dia-
223 phanous, like Chryſtal or Glaſs, as Empedo-
33Plut. de fæ-
cie
Lunæ.
cles thought, who held the Moon to be a
Globe
of pure Congeal'd Air, like Hail inclo-
ſed
in a Sphere of Fire;
for then,
2. How can the Interpoſition of her
44Thucid.
Livii
.
Plut
. de fd
cie
Lunæ.
Body ſo Darken the Sun, or cauſe ſuch great
Eclipſes
as have turned Day into Night, that
have
diſcover'd the Stars, and Frighted the
Birds
with ſuch a ſudden Darkneſs, that they
fell
down upon the Earth, as is related in di-
vers
Hiſtories.
And thereſore Herodotus tel-
ling
of anEclipſe which fell in Xerxes's time, de-
ſcribesitthus
, ἥλι {ος} ἐκλιπῶ, τὴυ {κ}τ{οῦ} {οὐ}ραν{οῦ} ὲδρην
55Herodot. l.
7
. c. 37.
ἀφανὴς {ἦν}.
The Sun leaving its wonted Seat in
the
Heavens, Vaniſhed away ;
all which argues
ſuch
a great Darkneſs, as could not have been,
if
her Body had been Perſpicuous.
Yetſome
there
are who Interpret all theſe Relations to
be
Hyberbolical Expreſſions;
and the Noble
Tycho
thinks it naturally impoſſible that any
Eclipſe
ſhould cauſe ſuch Darkneſs;

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