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Rh you can neither discerne this light, not yet the darker part of her body, but the reason is, because of the exuperancy of the light in the other parts, Quippe ilustratum medium speciem recipit valentiorem, the clearer brightnesse involves the weaker, it being with the species of sight, as it is with those of sound, and as the greater noise drownes the lesse, so the brighter object hides that which is more obscure. But they doe alwaies in their mutuall vicssitudes participate of one anothers light; so also doe they partake of the same defects and darknings, for when our Moone is eclipsed, then is their Sunne darkened, and when our Sunne is eclipsed, then is their Moone deprived of its light, as you may see affirmed by Mæslin. Quod si terram nobis ex alto liceret intueri, quomadmodum deficientem lunam ex longinquo spectare possumus, videremus tempere eclipsis solis terræ aliquam