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150 a sole illustrem conspiceret. "I believe that this globe of earth and water would appeare like some great Starre to any one, who would looke upon it from the moone." Now this could not be, nor could it shine so remarkably, unlesse the beames of light were reflected from it. And therefore the same Fromondus expresly holds, that the first region of ayre is there terminated, where the heate caused by reflexion begins to languish, whereas the beames themselves doe a passe great way further. The chiefe argument which doth most plainely manifest this truth, is taken from a common observation which may be easily tryed.

If you behold the Moone a little before or after the conjunction, when she is in a sextile with the Sunne, you may discerne not onely the part which is enlightned, but the rest also to have in it a kind of a duskish light, but if you Rh