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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2. ’Tis not ſuch a duskiſh leaden light as we
ſee
in the darker part of her Body, when ſhe
is
about a Sextile Aſpect diſtant from the Sun,
for
then why does ſhe appear red in the Eclip-
ſes
, ſince meer ſhade cannot cauſe ſuch Variety?
for ’tis the nature of Darkneſs by its Oppoſiti-
on
, rather to make things appear of a more
White
and clear Brightneſs than they are in
themſelves
;
Or if it be the ſhade, yet thoſe
parts
of the Moon are then in the ſhade of her
Body
, and therefore in Reaſon ſhould have the
like
Redneſs.
Since then neither of theſe
Lights
are hers, it follows that ſhe hath none
of
her own.
Nor is this a ſingular Opinion,
11Somn. Scip.
l
. 1. c. 20.
Lect
. antiq.
l
. 1. c. 15.
In
lib. de
natur
. re-
rum
.
but it hath had many Learned Patrons;
ſuch
as
Macrobius, who being for this Quoted of
Rhodiginus
, he calls him vir reconditiſſimœ ſci-
entiœ
, a Man who knew more than ordinary
Philoſophers
, thus commending the Opinion
in
Credit of the Author.
To him aſſents the
Venerable
Bede, upon whom the Gloſs hath
22De 4
Coœvis
Q.
4
Art. 21.
this Compariſon.
As the Looking Glaſs re-
preſents
not any Image within it ſelf unleſs it
receive
ſome from without;
ſo the Moon hath
33Exercit.
62
.
not any Lighr but what is beſtowed by the
44Epitom.
Aſtron
.
l
. 4. p. 2.
Sun.
To theſe agr@ed Albertus Magnus, Scaliger, Mœſtin, Keplar, and more55Epit. A-ſtro.Cop.l.6.
part
. 5. ſect.
2
.
eſpecially Malapertius, whoſe Words are more pat to the purpoſe than others, and there-
fore
I ſhall ſet them down as you may find

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