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of the continual Fire and Heat which would confume afl 
fuch as we have here. He thinks therefore it might be 
madefor the Illuminating and Enlivening of the Parrs ol 
the other Planets. And as for the fix'd Scars he conceives 
them to be fo many Suns, and to bedifpers'd in thevaft 
Expanfum of Heaven at various Diftaoces, and each of 
them to have a proper Syftem, and Planets moved about 
them, -^nd tho'itbe impofRblefor us ever to fee thole 
Planets, by reafon of their vaft Diftance, yet from the 
Analogy that is between the Sun and Stars, we may 
judge of the planetary Syftems about them^ and of the 
Planets themfelves too, which probably are like the 
planetary Bodies about the Sun, (that is) that they have 
Planets and Animals^ nay, and Rational ones too , as 
great Admirers and Obfervers of the Heavens as any on 
the Earth. ThisReprefents tous a wonderful Scheme 
of the prodigious vaftnefs of the Heavens • fo that the 
diftance between the Earth and the Sun, though of 17 
millions of Germm Afiles, is almoft nothing to the di- 
ftance of a fixM Star. And becaufe of the Difficulty in 
making Obfervations for this Purpofe, in the common 
Ways, he therefore propofes a new .l^ethod of his own 
for this Purpofe^ which he alfo explains, and by that 
one may the better conceive the vaftnefs of the diftance 
of one of the neareft, as for Inftance from the Sun ^ 
which by this way he proves to be 276^4 times the Di- 
ftance ofthe Sun from the Earth 5 and to make this Di- 
ftance yet more comprehenlible, he makes ufe of the 
former Explication, by the time that a Cannon-bullet 
moved as fwift, as hath been juft now Explained. Where- 
fore multiplying 276^4 by 2 5, he finds that a Cannon- 
bullet moving a hundred Fathom in a Second would be 
700000 Years in its Journey betwixt us and the fixM 
Stars; hereby the way he makes fome Reflexions on 
CarUja's p^ort/ces, znd explains his own Sentiments 
concerning the Prefent State of the Univerfe, nor will 
