Salusbury, Thomas Mathematical collections and translations 1667

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onably, as if descended from the same place.	19
Immense Magnitudes and Numbers are incom­prehensible by our Understandings.	332
MARS.
Mars necessarily includeth within its Orb the Earth, and also the Sun.	298
Mars at its Opposition to the Sun, seems sixty times bigger than towards the Conjuncti­on.	298
Mars makes an hot assault upon the Coperni­can Systeme.	302
MARSILIUS.
Signor Cæsar Marsilius observeth the Meridian to be moveable.	422
MEDICEAN.
The time of the Medicean Planets conversi­ons.	101
The Medicean Planets are as it were four Moons about Jupiter.	307
MEDITERRAN.
Mediterranean Sea made by the Seperation of Abila and Calpen.	35
The Voyages in the Mediterran from East to West are made in shorter times than from West to East.	403
MERCURY.
The Revolution of Mercury concluded to be about the Sun, within the Orb of Venus.	298
Mercury admitteth not of clear Observati­ons.	307
MOON.
The Moon hath no Generation of things, like as we have, nor is it inhabited by Men.	47
In the Moon may be a Generation of things dif­ferent from ours.	47
There may be Substances in the Moon, very different from ours.	48
The first resemblance between the Moon and Earth, which is that of Figure, is proved, by their manner of being illuminated by the Sun.	48
The second resemblance is the Moons being Opacous, as the Earth.	48
The third resemblance is the Moons being Dense and Mountainous as the Earth.	49
The fourth resemblance is the Moons being di­stinguished into two different parts for Cla­rity and Obscurity, as the Terrestrial Globe into Sea and Land.	49
The fifth resemblance is Mutation of Figures in the Earth, like those of the Moon, and made with the same Periods.	49
All the Earth seeth halfe onely of the Moon,and halfe onely of the Moon seeth all the Earth	51
Two Spots in the Moon, by which it is percei­ved that She hath respect to the Centre of the Earth in her Motion.	52
Light reflected from the Earth into the Moon.	52
The sixth resemblance is that the Earth and Moon interchangeably illuminate.	53
The seventh resemblance is that the Earth and Moon interchangeably Ecclipse.	53
The Secondary Clarity of the Moon esteemed to be its Native Light.	54
The Surface of the Moon more sleek then any Looking­Glasse.	55
The eminencies and Cavities in the Moon, are illu­sions of its Opacous and Perspicuous parts.	55
The Moons Surface is sharp, as is largely pro­ved.	57
The Moon, if it it were sleek like a Spherical Looking­Glasse, would be invisible.	60 & 62
The apparent Unevennesses of the Moons Sur­face aptly represented by Mother of Pearl.	70
The apparent Unevennesses of the Moon cannot be imitated by way of more and lesse Opa­city, and Perspicuity	71
The various Aspects of the Moon imitable by any Opacous matter.	71
Sundry Phænomena from whence the MoonsMontuosity is argued.	71
The Moon appears brighter by night, than by day.	72
The Moon beheld in the day time, is like to a little Cloud.	72
Clouds are no lesse apt than the Moon to be il­luminated by the Sun.	73
A Wall illuminated by the Sun, compared to the Moon, shines no lesse than it.	73
The third reflection of a Wall illuminates more than the first of the Moon.	74
The Light of the Moon weaker than that of the Twy­light.	74
The secondary Light of the Moon caused by the Sun, according to some.	76