inhabited and whether it is an Earth as ours and inclines sometimes to one sometimes to the other but at length it seems that he did believe it because he answers to divers objections that might be alledged against this opinion Bacon desires us seriously to cast our eyes upon the opinions of Pythagoras Philolaus Xenophanes Anaxagoras Parmenides Lucippus and of other ancient Philosophers indicating to us the truth thereof and wishes that some body would compose a book of their opinions this present discourse is part of it and therefore do we in some measure satisfie the desire of so rare a Person Lucretius whom we have here above quoted did confidently believe the same and hath testified it in divers places of his works and especially in these Verses besides those already alledged in the 18. Chapter Esse alios alibi terrarum in partibus orbes Et varias hominum gentes et saecla ferarum Huc accedit uti in summa res nulla sit una Unica quae gignatur et unica solaque crescat That is to say There are other new Worlds wherein is variety of Men and Beasts and of all other living creatures because that there is nothing groweth single and alone in this World nor in the earth nor in the Sea And in another place Praeterea cùn materies est multa parata Cùn loci est praeslò nec res nec causa moratur Ulla geri debet nimirum et confitier res Whereas there is store of matter and that the causes and the places do suffice this therefore ought to be declared and men must needs grant it so to be Paracelsus hath said That there are in Heaven some certain men called Tortelii and Penates for whom Christ did not die of whom some are without Soul and some not composed of the four Elements he yet names others never mentioned but by him Some of the Stoicks were of opinion not onely that there are people in the Moon but also in the body of the Sun And Campanella saith That those lively and bright habitations may have Inhabitants perhaps more wise and learned then we and better informed in those things that to us are incomprehensible But Galileus who in our Age hath perspicuously seen into the Moon hath observed That it may be inhabited seeing that there are Mountains in it c. for those parts in it that are the Plains and Valleys are obscure and dark and the Mountains are bright and clear For this cause have some said That the Stars do not shine but by reason of their irregularity asserting That we could not see them if they had not Mountains for to reflect and reverberate the light of the Sun Chap. XXXI Containing the Solution of some Objections that may be made against this Paradox of the World's Plurality BUt some may say There cannot be such Men as we in the Starres for they could not live there because men are divers even after the diversity of Countreys and those who ascend that high Mount Piracaca in the Indies dye there by reason of the too subtile ayr of the place To which I answer That those men must needs be different from us or indued with more robust and strong bodies then we or so well proportioned in the mixture of the Elements that that Ayr cannot be obnoxious and hurtful to them but that God hath so formed them that they may well live where he hath placed them but no where else And if we had never seen or heard of the Sea we could not be perswaded that Fishes could live in salt-water and that therein they could breed and grow for our food nor that those Countreys of the burning and frozen Zones could be inhabited So must we believe that God hath by prevention of inconvenience ordered all things for the best Here also might be objected the Incommodities and incongruences that might befall the Inhabitants of the Moon viz. the Meteors as the Clouds and other which would offend them and would hinder Plants to grow therein We answer to this That those Meteors are far enough from it and that rather they are lesse molested by them then we for Galileus did see with the telescope that it doth not rain upon the Earth of the Moon But it may be replyed How then do the plants grow To which I answer That they may grow in it not only by reason of the Moon 's natural humidity and moisture but also by the inundations of its Rivers as in Egypt where likewise no rain is seen I say farther That those Inhabitants of the Moon have no more ground to alledge these Objections being that when they look upon the Earth through the mists and clouds that incompass it they might doubt whether any creatures could be contained in it But hitherto we have answered none but weake objections Now come we to that with which our Opponents do arm themselves chiefly which is that of the Prince of the Aristotelists who as the Otthomans aymed to slay all his brothers that he might reign more securely viz. to beat down and suppresse all opinions contrary to his now this is his argument If there were many worlds the earth of those worlds would move towards our Earth or ours towards that of the other Worlds and so the other Elements of the other worlds would reach ours and so there would be nothing but a great tumult and Chaos This Argument is so weak that Magirus is constrained to speak in these terms when he alledges it not being himself able to find others because he maintains not the truth All these Reasons saith he and such like Philosophick Arguments cannot perspicuously demonstrate that there is but one World and Charles Rapineus speaks thus That it can but weakly be so perswaded Aristoteles could not comprehend what we have above said viz. That each world hath its center whereunto tend those heavy bodies that are in its sphere But he arguments upon a false foundation making the Earth to be the Center of all the worlds and allotting but one center for all his Argument would be good if his ground were good for what he saith was true it would be requisite that all heavy and ponderous things should tend towards our Center but there being many they also go into divers Centers for each Star hath its center that upholds it and though it be of a ponderous nature yet is it light in itself Having thus answered and so plainly and fully resolved the Objection of Aristoteles the grand Prince of Philosophers what may they expect who have not such pregnant Objections as his Chap. XXXII Continuing the Solution of divers Philosophers Objections against the Plurality of Worlds THese following Arguments are yet objected First That whereas there is but one principle and first Mover or but one God and first cause and that the world ought to answer in likenesse to its Architype there also ought to be but one World But we have here above shewed the contrary
Heresie and Atheism I confidently believe that this admirable order of the World which disperses the confusisions and chaos which by reason of mens ignorance do yet reign will even make the greatest Atheists of this world to confesse That they cannot have their originall but from God alone who is the Soveraign Creator of all things Melancthon saith farther That if there were divers Worlds it would be requisite that Jesus Christ should suffer death several times for to save them all but what do we know whether those Men in the Stars are better then those that are in this world whereof Satan is called the Prince and where he abides for which cause St. John saith in Chap. 12. v. 12. of the Revelations Therefore rejoyce ye Heavens and ye that dwell in them wo to the Inhabitants of the Earth and of the Sea for the Devil is come down unto you And though we should certainly know that those men in the Starres have need of salvation God hath so many means and wayes to us unknown for to save them and to satisfie his Justice that we need not inform our selves about these things but believe them in faith captivating our understandings as an ancient Father of the Church hath well spoken But some may object Who is he that will believe it To whom I shall reply with Plato No wicked man shall ever know it but he onely who shall be found worthy of it Let then those who are unworthy of so high and sublime knowledge withdraw hence their gross spirit cannot apprehend the subtilty of it and as Spiders do turn the best food into venome and poyson they call that which is the true way to the knowledge of God the high-way to Atheism Chap. XXXV Proving the Plurality of Worlds by a Reason drawn from the place of Hell SOme scrupulous persons might say That the Reason of this Chapter seems in something to contradict the doctrine of the Church But I shall answer him That if any one should endeavour to prove that there is no Hell his Opinion should certainly be esteemed erroneous and pernicious but to do nothing but to establish and confirm it as I do in this Chapter and to remark the place where it is being that the Divines cannot certainly point out the place I find nothing in it repugnant to Christianity Now whereas our bodies are to rise from the dead for to be rewarded according to their deserts good or evill and that the damned are in greater number then the saved the place of Hell must needs be very spatious and great to contain them all and solid and firm to uphold them but it cannot be anywhere but in one of the Stars and so consequently the Stars may have Inhabitants in them for it 's said That the Center of the Earth because it is the center of the World and the farthest place from Heaven but that I cannot find it needful to place it in the Center of the World considering that God is equally every where and that men cannot alienate themselves from him and also because it 's very easie to prove the contrary not only in that it could not be sufficient to contain in it self all the damned that have been since the Creation and shall be unto the end nor can be penetrated through by their lumpish bodies and also because the Earth it self at the day of Judgment must be consumed and done away as Esdras saith in 4th Chapter and 42 verse of his second book but also in this that not the earth but the Sun is the Center of the worlds the Sun then by reason of its far distance from the highest Heavens saith Foscarinus is the true place of Hell even as its siery nature required for the internall habitations seems to perswade it but I cannot admit this opinion though that I hold that Hell must be in one of the Stars but to seat it in so beautiful a Star as the Sun is I cannot consent to it seeing that the damned Souls cannot merit so good and advantagious an habitation But on the contrary It may seem more plausible and consonant to truth to seat the Paradise of God in the Sun according to that Text in the Psalms In Sâ—le posuit tabernaculum suum God hath placed his Tabernacle in the Sun But to prove more certainly that Hell is not within the Earth let us but observe that it was created before the Earth seeing that the wicked Angels were banished into it before the Creation of the Earth to which agrees the first Chapter and 14 verse of the Wisdome of Solomon saying The Kingdom of death is not upon the Earth Chap. XXXVI Proving the plurality of Worlds by an Argument drawn from the Seat of Paradise both Celestial and Terrestrial IT may likewise be proved That Paradise is no where else but in the Stars Now it 's most clear and certain that it 's not this Earth but a new Earth wherein is the heavenly Jerusalem which must needs be a solid place as well as our Earth that it may hold us up wherein all joy and happinesse shall be and out of which shall all miseries and torments be banished this place is prepared of old for men and what do we know but that we shall be dispersed into severall Stars doth not our Lord Christ Jesus assure us That in his Fathers house are many Mansions and Esdras in the 4. chap. 7. ver. of his second Book tels us How many Springs are above the Firmament and which are the out-goings of Paradise It may be that after we have inhabited this Earth of misery and sorrow wherein death and infirmity are the wages of our sins we shall be introduced into those high Globes wherein we shall live for ever in fulnesse of happinesse and joy Is it not said in Rev. 2. ver. 28. To him that overcomes will I give the morning Star And Job in the 38. and 7. v. doth see through Faith the Morning Stars singing together and all the Sons of Men shouting for joy This his Vision shall be accomplished when we shall trample upon these moving wonders and if by reason of those glorious objects we may remember the things of this Earth we shall from those vast habitations of glory look with great contempt and disdain upon this lump of Earth so highly esteemed of men and by them divided into so many Regions and Countreys and upon that drop of water by them divided into so many Seas May it not also be that the Earthly Paradise or Garden of Eden out of which Adam was driven was the same place whereunto we shall return he was driven out of it for his sins without which he had not tasted death And now that Jesus Christ by his satisfaction to the Father's Justice hath blotted them out we shall be therein introduced Munster faith that many ancient Philosophers did imagine it scituated in a high place encompassed with fire adjoyning the Circle of the Moon
Earth nor with the Sea and lastly because that our sight holpen by the Prospective-glasses observes in it some Seas and the tops of divers Mountains and such like remarkable things whereof the Maps and figures may be seen in Hevelius Argolius and several others and in our Book de Telescopio These Spots shew that the Moon is partaker of the Elementary and Terrestriall nature and consequently of the rest of the Elements This did move Plato to say That the Stars are composed of fire and earth by reason of their splendour and of their great and lumpish body This plurality of Worlds may again be proved by the variety of the causes that compose it and by the divers combinations that may thence be made which is the argument used by Morodorus in Plutarch in his book of the Philosophers opinion wherein it 's said That where the causes are there the effects ought to be also and the causes of the World being a great many so also ought the Worlds to be many the causes of the world are the four Elements and others that may yet be unknown to us or the infinite number of Democritus Atomes unlesse we had rather say That its God who being infinite so likewise hath created an infinite not onely of Worlds but of all things And indeed as the same Philosopher saith it would be a sad spectacle if there were but an ear of corn in a great field the same would it be of Heaven if it were true that there is no more Earth but one Chap. XXI Wherein is the same proved by certain Reasons drawn from Galileus's Observations and others as of the Stars of Jupiter and of the Spots in the Sun THat great Galileus who seemed onely to be in the World for to resolve the doubts in Astrologie hath discovered with his admirable invention of Prospective-glasses which immortalize his name by the discovery of what is contained in the Stars he is the first who hath directed his Telescopes or Prospective-glasses towards Heaven and by help of them that the milky line were small Stars which by reason of their proximity and great number do confound their light he also hath discovered the Moons superficies not smooth but rugged and full of risings of Hills and hollownesse of Valleys He also hath observed that the Star Venus doth imitate the course of the Moon being now full then half then in the first quarter as a sithe and hath observed the perspicuous change of bignesse in Venus and Mars's diameters things of great concernment and note for the theories of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe He hath ashamed the Sun discovering in him those Spots which for so many Ages he had buried and hid in his bright obscurity and hath discerned that those Spots were not fixed and alwayes lasting as those in the Moon but that they disappear appear again turning round the Sun he hath also discovered four new Planets that had not yet bin observed by some of the ancient Astrologers which he hath called the Planets of Medicis in favour of his Prince these Planets move onely round about Jupiter which hath induced some to believe that Jupiter was another world or another Sun round about which other Planets do run as round about that which in lightens us He hath farther observed that the Planet Saturn hath three bodies having two more at his sides and that the Planet Jupiter is be spotted with girdles or Zones that do girth it the which may plainly and perspicuously be seen by those Telescopes or Prospectives admirably well made by Torricelli the Florentine These are those rare Observations of that illustrious Person who though but little in body yet so great in ingenuity and acuity of spirit that all the World hath suffered by the losse of him He became blind by reason of his too great propensity and labour in these Observations and he who had in these things given light to all this world could not enjoy the light nor his Invention Foscarius adds to all these Observations that Venus hath been seen with three bodies as well as Saturn and that Jupiter hath 4. bodies But Gassendus Fontana Neapolitan hath now the excellentest Telescope in the world with which he hath seen the four Planets which are adjacent to Jupiter as four Moons two about Saturn which make a figure of a pot handle at each side of it In the midst of Mars a little Globe at his brimmes a darkish circle and about Venus two Moons or Stars Chap. XXII Proving the Plurality of Worlds by a Reason taken from the Clouds and the waters above in Heaven WIth the Prospective-glasse we may see some Clouds flying round about the Sun which can arise but from the Moon from other Stars or from the Sun it self because they be beyond the Region of the Meteors Now if the Stars ingender clouds they have water within themselves but if the Element of water is in them the Element of earth and the rest have as great priviledge to be in them as it Now that there is water in them the first Chapter of Genesis proves it clearly when he saith Then God said Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters And God made the Firmament and divided the waters which were under the Firmament from the waters which were above the Firmament he called the Firmament Heaven and the waters under the Firmament Seas Esdras in Chap. 6. of his second Book saith the same in these terms Thou madest the spirit of the Firmament and commandedst it to part asunder and to make a division betwixt the waters that the one part might go up and the other remain beneath Where are these waters above I beseech you if they are not in the Stars For it 's a very weak Reason to say That they are in the Clouds because that besides that they could not contain the Seas It s said in the second Chapter of Genesis that God had not caused it to rain upon the Earth but there went up a mist from the Earth and watered the whole face of the Earth and so consequently there was no vapour raised up to form them and what should have raised them seeing there was yet no Sun created to light the World Let us then lift up our eyes to Heaven and as the new Gymnosophists who daily contemplated the Sun let us observe in them those new Worlds wherewith it is wonderfully enriched which are divers and various in bignesse light and other qualities let us not be as poor simple Countrey fellowes who having seen no farther then the corner of their own chimney cannot apprehend that there can be any Town or City bigger then their Village but let us raise our spirits to the contemplation of the remotest and highest things that are thereby ennobling our selves though it be a very high attempt O how happy is that man who when he pleaseth can spiritually loosen his
Soul and by his exquisite Meditations rise up to the meditation and contemplation of these Worlds When once we are well acquainted with it and freed from all Preoccupation nothing can be found sweeter pleasanter and more consonant to truth What Patents and particular priviledges have they who believe the contrary that we should adhere to them and our belief should be ruled by them as if it were under their commands Men feign and forge to us five Zones in Heaven and seen other things that are nothing but dreams and foolish fancies as if they had been there above to see it We may say the same to them as Diogenes said to such other creatures How long is it since thou camest from Heaven It 's then as lawful for us to establish new Maxims as for them and to believe in the strength of our reason what we here have attempted and what others say with reason or appearance of truth O that Nature would once open us her bosome and plainly shew us the direction and Government of its motion with what is contained in those great and vaste bodies which sparkle and glister in Heaven What abuses and grosse mistakes should we find in all Sciences Chap. XXIII Wherein the same is proved by an Argument taken from the place where the Clouds stay without going farther WE have here above spoken of the Clouds and thence have drawn an Argument to assert this our opinion we may yet draw this from them viz. that the Clouds and vapours being light should ascend without limitation untill that they were lost from our sight if there were not some other terrestrial Globes in Heaven nor any other attraction then that of the Center of the Earth but we may observe even in the hottest of Summer that the Clouds do not ascend above 3. miles and the strongest vapours that are not above 30 miles whence we must infer that they ascend unto the limit of the activity and attraction of the center of the Earth not being able to go beyond because it would be to bend downward viz. towards the Center of some other terrestriall Globe But that I may better be understood it 's to be observed that as the Loadstone hath a certain inward virtue to draw iron or to move the Needle of the Sea-compasse unto such a distance and no farther so likewise the Earth which by the opinion of some is a great Loadstone whose circumference and activity is extended towards the Moon unto such a certain heighth and the other Stars also have such like circumference wherunto their virtue attraction may reach Insomuch that the Clouds having attained unto that distance which makes a middle between us and the Moon there they are stayed not being suffered to go beyond it because then they would descend towards the Moon or some other Stars which would be contrary to their nature which is to rise upward still so that if a ponderous body as a stone being cast up could go beyond the Earth's attractive point it would not fall back upon the Earth but upon that Star whose attractive Center should reach unto that place whither the stone was cast therefore hath Bacon said in his Book de progressu Scientiarum that Gilbert did not doubt incongruously That the bodies of weight and ponderosity being at a far distance from the Earth would by little and little forsake their motion towards things below Chap. XXIV Containing a Reason drawn from the Bird of Paradise THe new World discovered by our Fathers amongst those infinite riches and rare things it communicates to us makes us partakers of a Bird called by the Indians Manucodiata that is to say the Bird of God or of Paradise This Bird is so beautiful that no one in the Earth is to be compared to it its figure is of so rare a form and so extraordinary that never the like hath been found for it hath neither feet nor wings but is clothed with a skin of feathers made otherwise then that of other birds it 's not found but dead either upon the Earth or in the Sea no body ever saw its eggs nor its nest and it 's asserted that it lives by the Air this Bird never being found upon Earth is it not confonant to Reason that it may come from some other Starre where it lives and breeds and that having flown higher and beyond the attractive Center of that earth or Star where he lived he dyeth by changing his Ayr unto that which is not proper and natural and dying falls upon this Earth Now if birds be found in the Stars there also may other living Creatures be having all the same right of habitation And grant that what some object be true that it hath feet but that they are very short or that its feet are cut that it may appear the rarer yet it hinders not the consequence drawn from it provided that the other circumstances of its nature be true for if it hath feet it must be understood of some of its species onely for Aldrovandus mentions five or six sorts of them whereof some have feet and some none Chap. XXV Wherein is alledged an Argument taken from the Eclipses BEfore the Creation of this whole Fabrick God did inlighten himself and contemplate himself he was a sealed Book which at length is opened and hath set forth to the view that which remained in Himself wherefore the whole World is nothing else then an evident image an Idea of his hidden God-head he is through it all as our soul is throughout all our body and by his will encompasses all the motions of the spheres having spread through them all the Aires as a scrowl which folding it self away at the last day shall be reduced to its former Silence or rather to Nothing This wonderful order thus by him established may be seen in the constant and unchangeable course of the Planets upon which the Astrologians make some certain Almanacks for many years together and foretell the eclipses of Ages to come without missing a moment of time These Stars being all of one and the same nature do eclipse one another the Earth eclipses the Moon the Moon the Sun and so all the rest if their small body is not overcome by the bignesse of those they intend to darken as it s testified by Averroe's Observation who hath seen Mercury in the center of the Sun which seemed to grow in it its light if it hath any being covered and put out Now from these Eclipses or want of light in the Stars we may draw this strong Reason for the assertion of our Position for it sheweth and verifieth that they are of an earthly nature and that their light is borrowed the Moon appears black when the Earth hinders it to receive light from the Sun and divers Philosophers have believed that all the Stars do borrow their light of the Sun they are then obscure and thick of their own nature and consequently earthy and may have
such variety and diversity as the Earth viz. Men Beasts Plants and whatsoever is seen here amongst us and the Pythagorians did believe and to which Copernicus agreeth Chap. XXVI Proving the same because otherwise it were to make God to act by necessity IF there were not many Worlds in this whole Fabrick God could not act so powerfully and freely but that by some certain necessity and constraint which would be a great impiety and blasphemy even to imagine it for God could assuredly not onely have made other Worlds but also much more perfect then this for his power is neither shortened nor exhausted neither the matter which he could create of nothing as well as that of this our Earth therefore as he hath created this World could he not also have created others Chap. XXVII How could we see the Earth if we were far distant from it SOme may ask If the Planets are so many Earths and the Earth a Planet how could we see the Earth if we were far remote from it Clavius in his Commentary upon Sacroboscus hath endeavoured some suppositions upon this question and hath found that if any one were in the Globe of the Moon and should look towards the Earth it would appear to him three times bigger then the Moon appears to us and somewhat more and if a man were in the Globe of the Sun it would appear to him twice bigger then Venus seems to us and in the Globe of Mars thence it would appear lightsome and would seem to be of the bignesse of one of the Stars of the sixth proportion and if he were in the highest heavens he could not see it at all And this is saith he the Astrologers common opinion Chap. XXVIII Of the number of the Worlds IT may also be asked What number of Worlds there is but though it is a thing not certainly known considering the infinite number of Stars to us perspicuous besides those that we cannot see by reason of our eyes weaknesse Yet I shall here alledge the Judgment of some Authors upon this question Baruck the Philosopher and Clemens a disciple of the Apostles as Origen saith do mention seven perhaps meaning the seven Planets An ancient Author according to Plutarch in his book touching the ceasing of miracles did believe that there were an hundred and eighty nine Worlds disposed in a triangle every side containing sixty three Petro of Sicily thought the same thing touching the plurality of Worlds But the Thalmudists going beyond say that there are nineteen thousand and Democritus did believe that they were infinite and innumerable Chap. XXIX Touching divers ancient Philosophers who have believed the plurality of Worlds Pythagoras who first called this Fabrick Worlds is also one of the chiefest who believed the plurality of them and hath had many disciples and Citators who have continued to establish and maintain this assertion for Socrates hath publickly asserted the Worlds to be infinite so did also his disciple Archelaus who perswaded it also to Xenophanes the Colophian who also did assert That there are many Moons and Suns in the world This same Axiome was believed by Melisseus of Samia Parmenides's disciple as also by his School-fellow Zeno of Elis and his disciple Lucippus of Elis also Item by Democritus of Miletum Pythagoras's hearer who saith That in these Worlds the Stars are more beautifull and bright which I think may be according to their proximity By reason of which opinion that King of the Abderitanes was esteemed by his ignorant people to be out of his wits and thereupon they sent for Hippocrates to cure him of his disease but Hippocrates found him very well in his mind and said nothing against his opinion which moved Democritus perpetually to laugh at them who were ignorant of the same Joubertus who hath composed a book concerning laughter in it hath set down Hippocrates's letter upon this subject Diogenes of Apollonia Anaximenes's disciple together with Seleucus hath also pronounced their assertion touching the plurality of the worlds Orpheus Origines and Baruck the Philosopher Anaxagoras and many Stoicks more do a vouch the same Plinius also seems to have been of this opinion but Anaximander Anaximenes Epicureus and others following Francis I. Picus Mirandulanus have fully asserted it Mahomet who though an Infidel wanted not wit and knowledg to establish his belief did believe the same thing and in his Alcoran mentions several Earths and Seas to be in Heaven and the four Elements and all that is amongst us to be in every one of the Stars Epicureus did say That these Worlds were some of them without Sun or Moon and some had greater then those that lighten us and that others had divers Suns and that some of them were without living creatures in them without Plants and without all moisture and that at the same that things are thus in our worlds as we see them so also are they in divers other worlds but had he seen how the Indians and we agree in severall things he would questionlesse have believed it more constantly Icetes the Pythagorian together with Philolaus did believe there were two Earths opposite one to the other and Picus Mirandula was forced to say That he thought that the Moon was an Earth like unto ours herein conforming himself to those Pythagorians who sometimes did call our Earth Moon and the Moon Earth Francastor Physitian at Zerona following Eudoxus and Calispus's Judgment together with divers others whom for brevity sake I shall omit did also believe the same But whereas so many Philosophers have asserted the Position of this opinion it will be answered That I am not the first author of 〈◊〉 To this I answer That it 's sufficient for me to renew it and plainly professe it the which hitherto was not yet publickly practised Chap. XXX Of those things that are in the Moon and other Planets THough the Ancients had not the help of Prospective-glasses as we have wherewith we see as new Linxes the Seas the Mountains and other things which are in the Moon yet they did inquire and speak of things more particular that are in the Stars as the Pythagorians and Orpheus who did believe that the Moon was not onely of the colour of the Earth but that it contained Men Beasts and Trees 15 times bigger then we or 50 times bigger as Herodotus who also asserts that in it are Towns and Cities Xenophanes did also think that there are men within the body of the Moon Anaxagoras and Democritus have also said That in it are contained Mountains Valleys and Fields Lucianus in his book of true history Aristoteles have both mentioned some particularities of what is in the Moon but we shall not take notice what the first saith because he relates it as a fable though for the composing of his work he hath made use of a great deal of those ancient Philosophers opinions Plutarch in his discourse of the Moon reasons pro and con whether the Moon is