Hi ft orie of the Indies, lib. i. j 



beanies on the other part of the earth, but onely turner 

 about,and returnes to his fetting,making a ridge vpon 

 the earth by his turning, ( the which he muft of force 

 confeffe , that flhall denie the roundnes of the heaven, 

 feeing (according to their faying) the heaven as aba- 

 fen doth onely couer the face of the ear thj it fhould 

 then plainly follow, that wee could not obferue the 

 difference betwixt the 'dates and nights, the which in 

 fome regions befhort and long according to thefea- 

 fons,and in fbme are alwaies equall : the which S. Au- 

 guftint noteth in his bookes De Genefladlitteram. That 

 we may eafily^comprehend the oppofitions, convert 

 6ns,elevatTons, defcents, and all other afpeds and diC 

 pofitions of Planets and ftarres, when we fhall vnder- 

 ftand they move , and yet notwithftanding the hea 

 ven remaines firme and immoveable . The which fee- 

 meth to me eafie to comprehend, and will be to all o- 

 thers, if it may be lawfull to imagine that which my 

 fancy doth conceive : for if we fuppofetha^every flar 

 and planet be a body of it felfe, & thatlt beled&^uL 

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<Rd byan Angell,as Habacuc was carried into Babtlon: 

 who I pray you is fo blind^but feeth that all the diverfe 

 afpe<5ts which we fee a ppeare in planets & ftarres may 

 proceede from the diuerfity of motion which he that 

 guides them doth voluntarily giue them. We cannot 

 then with any reafbn affirme^but that this fpace & regi 

 on by which they faine that ftars do continually march 

 androwle, is elementarie and corruptible, feeing it di 

 vides it felfe when they paffe, the which vndoubtedly 

 do not pafle by any void place.If then the region where 

 in the ftarres and planets move, be corruptible, the ftars 

 and planets of their owne motion (hould be, by rea 

 fbn likcwife corruptible, and fo by confequence they 



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