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ii the whole fpace allowed by you for them all. And 
I my felf have feen of £ cf the © Semidiameter : And 
<« yet you mud confefs thefe great ones could only be 
e« the Conjunctions of fome, not all; 2; There are 
many times feen in the ® Superficies, a great number 
«« of Spots, whofe Diameters added together, would 
t < do more than twice fill the fpace you (peak of I my 
tc felf have feen it, and fo I believe have you. Gaf- 
<< fendus affirms, there are fometimes 40 feen at once : 
ci If this was by Conjunction of Planets, in every Ap- 
<c pearance, there was at leaft 80 Bodies at once on this 
<< fide the © 5 it may be as many on the other fide, 
<< befides thofe unfeen ("by your Reflection or other- 
wife) which doubtlefs mult be far more than feen. 
tc For it is a mofi: rare, and I think unheard of thing 
t« to fee but 3 (which is lefs than the half) of our 
ii Planets, conjoin’d in vifible 6 at once 1 So that with- 
ci out queftion, if they be Planets, they are many hun- 
ci dreds ; which muff have fo many feveral Orbes, and 
a which certainly cannot be done in fo narrow a com- 
i< pafs, as the of the © Semidiameter. And that 
<< they cannot have any larger (I fuppofe not fo large 
an) extent from the ® Superficies, may be proved by 
/heir motion through the vifible Hecnifpbere of the 
e< Suns Spherical Body, by comparing the fwiftnefs of 
a their motion towards the middle and tides together. 
6. If one of thefe (imagined) Planets be fwifter than 
<« another, as they muff needs be, then the ^ of 2 or 
< c 3 fwifter ones would make a Spot of fpeedier mouoa 
< c than the of 2 flower ones : But the morion of all 
« about the © Center, is always equal ; yea, and the 
Spots retain the fame Petition one to another, (con* 
« fklering the Suns Sphericity, andahe Angle of their 
« appearance to us; juft like the Fixed-Stars. So affirms 
« Gaffendus , Moveri omnes eodem & uniform motu, ddeo 
« utj cum plnres fuerint, n^tta anteverlat alJam, fed eun- 
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