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likevvife imb racing and ioyning with the water,makes 

 one globe or round bowie framed of thefe two ele 

 ments, having their bounds & limits within their own 

 roundnes & greatnes. The which may be fufficiently 

 proved by reafons of Philofophie and Aftrologie, lea 

 ving al fubtil definitions commonly obie<Sed. That,to 

 the rnoft perfe<5i body, (which is the Heaven) we muft 

 give the moft perfect figure , which without doubt 

 is round : , whofe circular motion could not be firme 

 nor equall in it felfe , if it had any corner or nooke of 

 any fide,or if it were crooked, ( as of neceflitie it muft 

 be ) if the Sun, Moone & ftars, made not their courfe 

 about the whole world. But leaving all thefe reafons, 

 it feemes that the Moone is fufficient in this cafe, as a 7 

 faithfull witneile of the Heaven it felfe ,Jeeing that i 

 her Eclypfe happens , but when as the roundneffe of 

 the carm oppofeth it felfe^diametralljTBetwixt her and 

 the Sunne , and by that meanes keepes the Sunne- 

 beames from finning on her. The which could not 

 chance, if the earth were not in the midft of the world 

 compared in and invironed by the whole Heaven. 

 Some haue doubted whether the light of the Moone 

 were borrowed from thebrightnes of the Sunne : but 

 itisneedleffe, feeing there can bee found no other 

 caufeoftheEdipfe, full, and quarters of the Moone, 

 but the communication of the beames which proceed 

 from the Sunne. In likefortif wee will carefully exa> 

 mine this matter,jgdhallfinde that the darkeneile of 

 the night proceedesTrotn no other cau(el>utfrom thcT 

 fhadow which the earth makes, notfufferingthe light 

 of the funne Jto r pafle to 'the other parte of the hea- 

 ven,where his beam esfhine not . If then it be Co, that 

 the funne pafTeth no farther, neyther doth caft his 



beames 



