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Rh since it may allay the heate and scorchings of the Sunne, when he is over their heads. And nature hath thus provided for those in Peru with the other inhabitants under the line.

But if there be such great, and frequent alterations in the Heavens, why cannot wee discerne them?

I answer:

1. There may be such, and we not able to perceive them, because of the weaknesse of our eye, and the distance of those places from us, they are the words of Fienus, as they are quoted by Fromandus in the above cited place) Possunt maximæ permutationes in cœlo fieri, etiamsi a nobis non conspiciantur, hoc visus nostri debilitas & immensa cœli distantia faciunt. And unto him assents Fromondus himselfe, when a little after hee saies, Si in sphæris planetarum degeremus, plurima forsan cœlestium nebularum vellere toto æthere passim Rh