Quadrature, the &longs;ame appears very weak, becau&longs;e it continually
<lb/> lo&longs;eth more and more of the view of the luminous part of the
<lb/> Earth: and yet it &longs;hould &longs;ucceed quite contrary, if that light were
<lb/> its own, or communicated to it from the Stars; for then we &longs;hould
<lb/> &longs;ee it in the depth of night, and in &longs;o very dark an ambient.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg194"></margin.target>*<emph type="italics"/>By the Moons two<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> Quadratures <emph type="italics"/>you
<lb/> are to under&longs;tand
<lb/> its fir&longs;t and last
<lb/> quarters, as A­
<lb/> &longs;trologers call them<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SIMPL. </s><s>Stay a little; for I ju&longs;t now remember, that I have
<lb/> read in a little modern tract, full of many novelties; “That this
<lb/> &longs;econdary light is not derived from the Stars, nor innate in the
<lb/> Moon, and lea&longs;t of all communicated by the Earth, but that it is
<lb/> <arrow.to.target n="marg195"></arrow.to.target>
<lb/> received from the &longs;ame illumination of the Sun, which, the &longs;ub­
<lb/> &longs;tance of the Lunar Globe being &longs;omewhat tran&longs;parent, pene­
<lb/> trateth thorow all its body; but more livelily illuminateth the
<lb/> &longs;uperficies of the Hemi&longs;phere expo&longs;ed to the rays of the Sun:
<lb/> and its pro&longs;undity imbuing, and (as I may &longs;ay) &longs;wallowing that
<lb/> light, after the manner of a cloud or chry&longs;tal, tran&longs;mits it, and
<lb/> renders it vi&longs;ibly lucid. </s><s>And this (if I remember aright) he
<lb/> proveth by Authority, Experience and Rea&longs;on; citing <emph type="italics"/>Cleomedes,
<lb/> Vitellion, Macrobius,<emph.end type="italics"/> and a certain other modern Author: and
<lb/> adding, That it is &longs;een by experience to &longs;hine mo&longs;t in the days
<lb/> neare&longs;t the Conjunction, that is, when it is horned, and is chiefly
<lb/> bright about its limb. </s><s>And he farther writes, That in the Solar
<lb/> Ecclip&longs;es, when it is under the <emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cus<emph.end type="italics"/> of the Sun, it may be &longs;een
<lb/> tran&longs;lucid, and more e&longs;pecially towards its utmo&longs;t Circle. </s><s>And
<lb/> in the next place, for Arguments, as I think, he &longs;aith, That it not
<lb/> being able to derive that light either from the Earth, or from the
<lb/> Stars, or from it &longs;elf, it nece&longs;&longs;arily follows, that it cometh from
<lb/> the Sun. </s><s>Be&longs;ides that, if you do but grant this &longs;uppo&longs;ition, one
<lb/> may ea&longs;ily give convenient rea&longs;ons for all the particulars that
<lb/> occur. </s><s>For the rea&longs;on why that &longs;ecundary light &longs;hews more
<lb/> lively towards the outmo&longs;t limb, is, the &longs;hortne&longs;s of the &longs;pace
<lb/> that the Suns rays hath to penetrate, in regard that of the lines
<lb/> which pa&longs;s through a circle, the greate&longs;t is that which pa&longs;&longs;eth
<lb/> through the centre, and of the re&longs;t, tho&longs;e which are farthe&longs;t from
<lb/> it, are always le&longs;s than tho&longs;e that are nearer. </s><s>From the &longs;ame
<lb/> principle, he &longs;aith, may be &longs;hewn why the &longs;aid light doth not
<lb/> much dimini&longs;h. </s><s>And la&longs;tly, by this way the cau&longs;e is a&longs;&longs;igned
<lb/> whence it comes, that that &longs;ame more &longs;hining circle about the
<lb/> utmo&longs;t edge of the Moon, is &longs;een at the time of the Solar Ec­
<lb/> clip&longs;e, in that part which lyeth ju&longs;t under the <emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cus<emph.end type="italics"/> of the Sun,
<lb/> but not in that which is be&longs;ide the <emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cus<emph.end type="italics"/>: which happeneth
<lb/> becau&longs;e the rays of the Sun pa&longs;s directly to our eye, through the
<lb/> parts of the Moon underneath: but as for the parts which are
<lb/> be&longs;ides it, they fall be&longs;ides the eye.”</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg195"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The &longs;econdary
<lb/> light of the Moon
<lb/> cau&longs;ed by the Sun,
<lb/> according to &longs;ome.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>If this Philo&longs;opher had been the fir&longs;t Author of this o­
<lb/> pinion, I would not wonder that he &longs;hould be &longs;o affectionate to it,
