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140 send forth any such rayes as may make her appearance bigger then her body,

2. 'Tis oberved in the Solary eclipses, that there is a great trepidation about the body of the Moone, from which we may likewise argue an Atmo-sphæra, since we cannot well conceive what so probable a cause there should be of such an appearance as this, Quod radii Solares á vaporibus Lunam ambientibus fuerint intercisi, that the Sun beames were broken and refracted by the vapours that encompassed the Moone.

3. I may adde the like argument taken from another observation which will be easily tried and granted. When the Sunne is eclipsed, wee discerne the Moone as shee is in her owne naturall bignesse, but then she appeares somewhat lesse then when shee is in the full, though she be in the same place of her supposed excentrick and epicycle, and therefore Tycho Rh