( * 8 ? ) 
“ the outer Planet upon the inner, doth make it f as you 
« fpeak) indifcernable, then that Light fo reflected is re- 
u fle&ed either upon all places, as the Moons and Pla- 
« nets Light* or but upon one, as is the Reflexion 
w of a plain Looking-Glafs. If the firft, there would 
“ never be many feen (Teldom above one or two) be- 
• £ caufe the outermoft would continually make the iff- 
ner undifcernable. But Gaffendus affirms, there are 
“ feen fometimes 40 at once in the Suns body. If the 
u 2d, there would always be many feen, becaufe the 
“ reflected Light would but occupy a little room, and 
“ that but for a fmall time, till the fwifter were paft 
‘Sihe place of Reflection : Whereas many Days there 
“ are none at all feen in the Suns Hemifphere : And in 
Ci both rhefe cafes, the outermoft Planet of all would 
** always in the fpace of 27 Days, be feen in the fame 
u place, being never obfcured, none of the inferior be- 
“ ing able to refleft Light upon if. Add hereunto, if 
ct any kind of Reflection (hould make them to appear 
“ bright like the Sun, and fo not diftinguiftiable from 
u the Light of the Sun, what {hould (<?-) hinder, but 
we (hould fee them alfo bright Bodies by the fide of 
w the Sun, when they are paffing either by the Weft 3 . 
“ or Eaft-fide of the Suns Body F The Light being 
“ then refle&ed upon them by the inferior Planets as 
c ‘ well as at other times, and that alfo upon much of 
“ that fide of them which we (hould behold. 
(a) N.B. Mr Gafcoigne having, again ft thefe Words , infers 
ed a rough-drawn figure in the Margin of Mr Ciabrris’j Let- 
ter, 1 have alforcprefented it in Tab. 2 , Fig. 4. imagining it may 
fomewhat explain Mr Gafcoigne’r Hypothecs, and what Mr. 
Ciabtrie faith agftinft it. 
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