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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6048That the Moon may be a World. Nor may we think that the Earth's Shadow
can
Cloud the proper Light of the Moon from
Appearing
, or take away any thing from her
Inherent
Brightneſs;
for this were to think a
Shadow
to be a Body, an Opinion altogether
misbecoming
a Philoſopher, as Tycho grants
in
the fore-cited place, Nec umbra terrœ corpo-
reum
quid eſt, aut denſa aliqua ſubſtantia, ut Lu-
lumen obtenebrare poſſit, atque id viſui noſtro
prœripere
, ſed eſt quœdam privatio luminis ſola-
ris
, ob interpoſitum opacum corpus terrœ.
Nor
is
the Earth's ſhadow any Corporal thing,
or
thick ſubſtance, that it can Cloud the
Moons
Brightneſs, or take it away from our
Sight
;
but it is a meer privation of the Suns
Light
by reaſon of her Interpoſition of the
Earth
's Opacous Body.

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