(805. ] 
or of other flight luminous apppear- 
ances. 
‘© Thus (fays Mr. Pigott) I have fully 
inveftigated the nature of this. diftant fun, 
a fingle one among many millions, and 
{carcely perceptible tothe fight, yet of not 
lefs importance than our grand luminary. 
But ours is till fupplied abundantly with 
refplendent particies, while Sobiefki’s va- 
riable (tar has them mott fparingly dif- 
perfed over its {phere: a fcantinefs that 
apparently muft occafion to its furround- 
ing planets conftant viciffitudes of uncertain 
darkueis, and repletion of light and heat. 
Corre? Lift of New Publications. . 
481 
How far more enviable feems our fituation; 
I mean that which we at pre‘ent enjoy : 
there being ftrong reafons to believe that 
the fun’s luminous appearance has been at 
times confiderably diminifhed ; and I have 
lirtle hefitation in conceiving that it may 
be fo reduced at fome future period to 
{mall patches, and the apparent irregula~ 
rities of its periodical rotations, which at 
prefent are only perceived by the obferva- 
tions of trifling dark fpots, would become 
evidently confpicuous, particularly when 
feen at a diftance as remote as the varia- 
ble ftars are from us.”” 
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