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t, he can neither allow it co have Animals, no, nor 
P lants. And yet at h{\ he fays, 'tis not improbable but 
t hat it may have Plants and Animals too, but they muft 
have another fort of Noucifliment. Now by this Cen- 
fure of the Moon hehas pafs'd the fatn^ upon all the o- 
ther Moons, to wit the Concomitants of ^ and h , which 
he judges to be of the fame Nature, and to expofe the 
fame part always towards their primary Planet, as the 
Moon does to the Earth, by a Phenomenon of one of the 
Moons of b , the Confideration of which Suggefted to 
him that the Phenomena of the Heavens muft be to their 
Inhabitants,, if they could have any, and for all the reft 
gives an Inftance of thofe of the Moon. Then he pro- 
ceeds to confider the Sun and the fix*d Stars, promifing 
the Magnificence of the Solar Syftems 5 this he does by 
Words, becaufe Schemes he could not render 'em large 
enough to reprefent the proportionate Magnitudes of 
the Orbs to the Minutenefs of the Plenary Bodies ; for 
the Orb of would require an-^rea of ^60 Foot 
in Diameter, and that of the Earth, one of 35 Foot to 
draw them proportionate to the Globes, for the Orb of 
the Earth is 12000 times the Diameter of the Earth's 
Ball. And confequently the diftance of the Earth firom 
the Sun will be above 17 Thoufand, or 17 Millions of 
German Miles. To make the vaftnefs of thefe Diftances 
the more conceivable, he Computes them by the Times 
that a Gannon-bullet (fuppos'd to pafs a hundred Fa- 
thom in a fecond of Time) would fpend in paffing thofe 
Spaces, whence he concludes it would be 25 Years paf- 
fing to the Sun from the Earth, 125 fromv, and 250 
from fc . Then he proceeds to confider the Body of the 
Sqn, . where he is nonfUs^d^ as about the Moon • for 
he is not fatisfi'd whether it be a folid, or fluid Body, but 
he inclines to think it a Fluid. Next, he knows not ! 
i,vhat to think of Aninials, or Vegetables in it, fince ■ 
there can be nothing iike any thing we know, by reafon i 
