i 6B Dr. Wilson’s Anfwer to the Objections, &c. 
Views, much of the fame kind, were even entertained by 
fome fo long ago as the days of scheiner, as we find men- 
tioned by that indefatigable author in his Rofa Urfina, p. 746. 
44 Non equidem melatebat,” fays he, “ non deeffe, qui putant 
44 maculas folares effe quafdam in foie prominentias et veluti 
44 monte s ; fed cum hasc ex anticipata mentis affe&ione, 
44 phaenomenique folaris ignoratione procedant neglexi.” And 
further on he adds : 44 Aftronomi finceri eft phenomenon fequi 
44 non antevertere : veritatem ex obje&o accurate obfervato., 
(6 non obje&um invitum ad arbitraria figmenta traheref* 
