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to dired us, fince we find that Nature does not reftrain 
it felf to fuch Rules of Meafure as might feem the bed to 
us. But fince the Principal Ufe of Reafon, which he fup- 
pofes to be the fame as here feems to be for the Con- 
templation of the Works of the Creatour, and the Im- 
provement of Arts and Sciences, he conceives thatthofe 
Inhabitants do not only Contemplate and obferve the 
Stars, but that they have alfo made an Aftronomy, and 
Cultivated fuch Arts as conduce thereunto 5 as thofe of 
Geometry Arithmetick, Opticks, drc and that of 
Writing, by which they may Hegifler their Obfervati- 
ons to their Pofterity. And thence he concludes they 
muft have Hands and Legs, or fuch like Limbs, and an 
ered Face by v^hich they may be enabled to perform 
fuch Anions as are neceffary for thofe Purpofes, and in 
general he thinks it probable that they may have many 
Arts and Sciences, the fame with ours, though poffibly 
not all, but yet others infl:ead thereof^ not lefs Valuable. 
Nor would they feem lefs Wonderful and Pleafant to us, 
could w^e be Tranfported thither by fome powerful Ge- 
nius, which fince he defpairs of, he endeavours in his 
fecond Book to give us his Judgment concerning the 
Phoenomena of the Heavens, what they might appear to 
one of us fijppofed to be there in one of them, which he 
Founds on the Knowledge we now have of them, as to 
Magnitude, Diftance, c^c. And here; after he has Cen- 
fured Fatherji^/>^:A^r*s Iter ExtaticumCa Book Publi/h'd on 
the like Subjed) he begins to tell what muft be the Phae- 
nomena ofthe Sun,and Planets, feen in ^ , and next what 
the fame muft be feen in re^us, which fince with a fixtjr 
Foot Telefcope, and all his Diligence, he could never 
difcover to have Spots, or differently illuminated Parts, 
as are vifible in Mars^ Jufitcry^nd Sat firm HeConje- 
dures that the Refledionof Light firom it is made by 
the Atmofpherc about it; and not by the Body it felf. 
Thirdly^ What they are in Mars, which he makes much 
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