Galilei, Galileo, The systems of the world, 1661

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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>It is ſo; and I have oftentimes wiſh'd that the Air
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              would grow thicker, that I might be able to ſee that ſame light
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              more plainly; but it ever diſappeared before dark night.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>You know then very certainly, that in the depth of
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              night, that light would be more conſpicuous.</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I do ſo; and alſo more than that, if one could but
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              take away the great light of the creſcent illuminated by the Sun,
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              the preſence of which much obſcureth the other leſſer.</s>
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              <s>SALV. Why, doth it not ſometimes come to paſs, that one may
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              in a very dark night ſee the whole face of the Moon, without
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              ing at all illuminated by the Sun?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I know not whether this ever happeneth, ſave onely
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              in the total Ecclipſes of the Moon.</s>
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              <s>SALV. Why, at that time this its light would appear very
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              clear, being in a moſt obſcure
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              medium,
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              and not darkned by the
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              clarity of the luminous creſcents: but in that poſition, how light
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              did it appear to you?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I have ſometimes ſeen it of the colour of braſs, and a
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              little whitiſh; but at other times it hath been ſo obſcure, that I
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              have wholly loſt the ſight of it.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>How then can that light be ſo natural, which you ſee ſo
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              cleer in the cloſe of the twilight, notwithſtanding the impediment
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              of the great and contiguous ſplendor of the creſcents; and which
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              again, in the more obſcure time of night, all other light removed,
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              appears not at all?</s>
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              <s>SIMPL. </s>
              <s>I have heard of ſome that believed that ſame light to
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              be participated to theſe creſcents from the other Stars, and in
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              ticular from
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              Venus,
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              the Moons neighbour.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>And this likewiſe is a vanity; becauſe in the time of
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              its total obſcuration, it ought to appear more ſhining than ever;
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              for you cannot ſay, that the ſhadow of the Earth intercepts the
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              ſight of
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              Venus,
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              or the other Stars. </s>
              <s>But to ſay true, it is not at
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              that inſtant wholly deprived thereof, for that the Terreſtrial
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              miſphere, which in that time looketh towards the Moon, is that
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              where it is night, that is, an intire privation of the light of the Sun.
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              <s>And if you but diligently obſerve, you will very ſenſibly perceive,
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              that like as the Moon, when it is ſharp-horned, doth give very little
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              light to the Earth; and according as in her the parts
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              nated by the Suns light do encreaſe: ſo likewiſe the ſplendor to
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              our ſeeming encreaſeth, which from her is reflected towards us;
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              thus the Moon, whilſt it is ſharp-forked, and that by being between
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              the Sun and the Earth, it diſcovereth a very great part of the
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              reſtrial Hemiſphere illuminated, appeareth very clear: and
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              ing from the Sun, and paſſing towards the ^{*}Quadrature, you
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              may ſee the ſaid light by degrees to grow dim; and after the </s>
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