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'Alexander Noml^Y^^^?! ftudient at Haf>^ 
^ard'Colledge in the Majfachsifeis Colony^ 
WfiicH WIS as fblloweth. 
Mathematicians have thdtpriviledge above 
other Philofopbers^ that their foundations are 
fo founded upoHy and proved by demonjiration , 
that reafon vdlcns nolens muji approve of 
ihem^ voheh they art once vievped by the eye of 
iheintetle3^ \p(o (didio if grants ^probafuiri 
eft> if uponthofe foundations her aifesfamom 
jirchiteBureSj iphichi are infepatablytjoynttd 
in^ and joynedto their ground-works ^ yet are 
not their Elements of fuch vaji extenftonSy ai 
to have their dimenfions adequated mthjhe 
mj^chine of the prinaum mobile, and fo in-- 
dude the fahrtcl^of crened beings \ hut there 
are fphears dbijve the fphear of their A^ivityy 
and Orbs plaeed above the reach of 0eir In- 
jirumentSj which non-plus the mojl acute 
mquifitorSy at teaji in reference to an^ accurate 
fcrutiny : hence diffentions about Celeftiat 
hodies. whether the planets have any natural 
lighty has been a quejiioHj proving that they 
borrow their light from the Sun : he being the 
primitive^ they derivatives i he the Aug- 
mentum primuni, they Orta, Mo though 
they have light in fe, yet not ex fe. Tihis^ ^ffer- 
^gn^ is not ekpugied by GeocenEricks j^hd 
pYodme fenfe and ^Antiquity io jupport their 
fuppofuions h nor oppugned by ^i^Xio^^titnok^^ 
