Foscarini, Paolo Antonio, An epistle to fantoni, 1661

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              <s>And if any one would underſtand theſe Days of ſacred Scri­
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              pture, not only
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              ſecundum nos,
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              but alſo
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              ſecundum naturam,
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              as
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              circulations of Cœleſtial Light returning to the ſelf ſame point
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              from whence it did at firſt proceed; ſo as that there needs no
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              reſpect to be had to Night or to ^{*} Darkneſſe, for which ſole rea­
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              ſon we are fain to imbrace the Interpretation of ſacred Scripture
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              ſecundum nos
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              ; In oppoſition to this we may thus argue: If the
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              ſacred Scripture be underſtood to ſpeak
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              abſolutely,
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              of iterated
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              and ſucceſſive circulations of light, and not
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              reſpectu noſtri,
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              as if
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              theſe words
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              Evening and Morning
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              had never been inſerted, which
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              in their natural acceptation denote the Suns habitude to us and to
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              the Earth: For that the
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              Morning
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              is that time when the Sun be­
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              gins to wax light, and to riſe above the
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              Horizon
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              in the Eaſt,
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              and become viſible in our
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              Hemiſphœre,
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              and
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              Evening
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              is the time
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              in which the Sun declines in the Weſt, and approacheth with its
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              light neerer to the other oppoſite
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              Horizon
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              and
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              Hemiſphœre,
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              which is contiguous to this of ours. </s>
              <s>But the word
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              Day
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              is a Co­
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              relative to the word
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              Night.
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              From hence therefore it evidently
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              appeareth, that theſe three words
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              Evening, Morning,
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              and
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              Day,
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              cannot be underſtood of a Circulation of Light
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              ſecundum ſe,
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              and
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              abſolutè,
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              but only
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              ſecundum nos,
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              and
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              reſpectu noſtri
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              ; and in
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              that ſenſe indeed the
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              Morning
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              and
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              Evening
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              do make the
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              Night
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              and
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              Day,
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              * Aut ad Umbram</s>
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              <s>In like manner,
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              Gen.
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              1. 16. it is ſaid,
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              God made two great Lights;
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              the greater Light to rule the Day, and the leſſer Light to rule the
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              Night, and the Stars.
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              Where both in the Propoſition and in the
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              ſpecification of it, things are ſpoken which are very diſagreeing
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              with Cœleſtial Bodies. </s>
              <s>Therefore thoſe words are in that place
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              to be interpreted according to the foreſaid Rules; namely, ac­
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              cording to the third and fourth; ſo that they may be ſaid to be
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              underſtood
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              according to the ſenſe of the vulgar, and the common
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              way of ſpeaking,
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              which is all one, as if we ſhould ſay,
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              ſecundum
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              apparentiam,
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              and
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              ſecundum nos, vel reſpectu noſtri.
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              For firſt, it
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              is ſaid in the Propoſition,
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              And God made two great Lights
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              ;
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              meaning by them the Sun and Moon, whereas according to the
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              truth of the matter theſe are not the Greater Lights; For al­
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              though the Sun may be reckoned amongſt the Greater, the Moon
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              may not be ſo, unleſs
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              in reſpect of us.
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              Becauſe amongſt
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              thoſe that are abſolutely the Greater, and a little leſſer than the
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              Sun (nay in a manner equal to it) and far bigger than the Moon,
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              we may with great reaſon enumerate
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              Saturn,
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              or ſome of the
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              Fixed Stars of the firſt Magnitude, ſuch as
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              Canopus,
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              (otherwiſe
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              called
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              Arcanar)
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              in the end of a River; or the
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              Little Dog
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              in
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              the mouth of the
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              Great Dog
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              ; or the Foot of
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              Orion,
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              called
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              Ri­
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              gel
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              ; or his
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              Right ſhoulder,
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              or any other of that Magnitude. </s>
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