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by the by. And this is fufficient for a Confutation of 
Gajfendm and Faber \ But our forementioned Ahhe fuper- 
adds to a greater or lelTer Aperture of the 'Pupll^ as a ne- 
celTary Confequent, a greater and lelTer Convexity of the 
Cryftdline^ as alfo a lengthening and fhortening theTWf^ 
of the Eye. And this I muft confefs would do foraething 
if we find it true in our Cafe ; and this let us try. Firft 
fays he the Daskiihoefs of die Moon nigh the Horizon ad- 
mits ih^ Pupil to enlarge it felf, the Cryfiallme to flatten ^ 
and the Eye to lengiuen . but what if we change our Ob- 
jeO: , and inflread of the Moon take the Diftance between 
fbme of the fixt Stars ;(as fuppofe thofe of Orions Girdle,) 
we fliall find the lame Phenomenon in them, and yet I hope 
neither he nor Ga^endm will k^txi^ that they at one time 
ftrain the Eye more than at an other, or that at any time 
their fulgur fl:rains the £ye at all ; if he do, let him take 
^Stars of the lefTer Magnitudes, nay even -thofe that can 
but juft be perceived, and then he will be convinced ; Or 
let him confider whether this will hold in looking at the 
Sun through very dark GlafTes , which render the 
Sight thereof as inolFencive to the Eye, as that of a green 
Field \ but perhaps he will then fay that this other Rea- 
fon holds which is 2/^, that the greater Imaginary diftance 
at which we tliiak the Moon near the Horizon^ than 
when more elevated, makes us Contemplate her as if re- 
ally fhe was fo, with ample Pupils^ &c. but this I 
have fufficientiy overthrown in my Remarks againft Des- 
Cartes: therefore I pals it ov^r, only fubjoyning that if 
there were any thing in this Surmile, my-thinks the Ho- 
rizonul Moon fhould be fancyed nigher to ys then farther 
from us; for if we are for trying Natural thoughts, let us 
take Children to determine the Matter, who are apt to 
think, that could they go to the edg of that fpace that 
bounds their Sight, they iliould be able ( as they call it ) 
to touch the Sky ; and confequently the Moon feems then 
rather nigher to us than farther from us. 
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