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168 looketooke [sic] especiall notice of such as these, and therefore fancied out such constellations in which to place the Starres, shewing how many there were in every asterisme, that so afterwards posterity might know whether there were any new Starre produced or any old one missing. Now the nature of these Comets may probably manifest, that in this other world there are other meteors also; for these in all likelihood are nothing else but such evaporations caused by the Sunne, from the bodies of the Planets, I shall prove this by shewing the improbabilities and inconveniences of any other opinion.

For the better pursuite of this 'tis in the first place requisite that I deale with our chiefe adversary, Cæsar la Galla who doth most directly oppose that truth which is here to bee proved, Hee endeavouring to confirme the incorruptibility of the Heavens, and