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
A NEW TREATISE PROVING A Multiplicity OF WORLDS That the Planets are Regions Inhabited and the Earth a Star and that it is out of the Center of the World in the third Heaven and turns round before the Sun which is fixed And other most Rare and Curious Things By PETER BORELL Counsellor and Physitian to the King of France London Printed by John Streater 1658. TO The Vertuous AND Most Renowned Gentleman Mr. Frederick Clodius Doctor in Physick His truly honoured Friend Worthy SIR THree considerations have induced me to offer these rude and unpolished lines to your Patronage and favourable acceptance The first is the Learning and fame of the Author of this Treatise who carrieth the same Title as Your Self The second is the worthinesse and great esteem and acuity of spirit of that Person of Honour Sir Kenelm Digby to whom it was offered by the Author The third is the worthiness wisdom and deep Learning wherewith You are indued adorned which that Noble Knight well knowing for an acknowledgment thereof hath presented this Book to your view as a piece of great novelty I shall not presume to implore your Protection for the subject but onely for this my rash attempt in the translating of it which if it may auspiciously be admitted into Your friendly estimation doubtlesse 't will find an universall acceptance amongst Persons of greatest Eminency All I humbly crave for the present is my boldnesse might be favourably excused since 't was my lawfull Ambition thereby to avoid Ingratitude However this Work be esteemed may your deserved good name and honor encrease more and more which is and shall be the constant Vote of Sir Your humbly devoted Servant D. Sashott A NEW TREATISE PROVING A Multiplicity OF WORLDS CHAP. I. Of the Plurality of Worlds in general being as a Preface to the following Chapters WE may truly say that Preoccupation is an horrid Monster which makes a strange havock in the spirits of Men hinders the progress of Sciences and causes Men to droop in a constant ignorance for they who by it are once prepossessed can judge of nothing by themselves censure the best opinions that are assert those of their Masters whether good or bad and having conceived a distaste of whatsoever checks what is contrary to their belief though grosse and ignorant bring forth nothing but contempts and blames against those who endeavour to open their eyes and root them out of the darknesse of their ignorance to draw them to the enjoyment of the true light and knowledg of things The which is more particularly practised now in this Age wherein we live wherein Men live but by imitation wherein learned Men are despised wherein they who have some particular and rare notions upon subject matters of great moment and concernment to mens knowledge are esteemed extravagant and ridiculous wherein no new proposition can be admitted But alas what may I hope seeing this evill is like a gangrene and hath taken so deep root that it hath robb'd men of their senses and feeling who by it are infected Considering that those who are most possess'd with it do not think so themselves to be What then may I expect who am going to propose some Novelties not of things that are in the Earth but even in the Heavens and not onely in the Heavens but also in the bodies of the Stars As soon as the Title of this Discourse shall appear to the eyes of Men they will condemn me before they hear me neither will they so much as read my Reasons and will rather live in ignorance then change their opinion and be as beasts in the World than know the secrets thereof Most men think it a shame to confesse that they are ignorant of some thing and that they are in the wrong for on the contrary it 's the way to find out the truth considering that new reasons are alwayes sought for what we esteem our selves ignorant of Mens ignorance is so great that the holy Scriptures have declared Mens knowledg to be nothing else but vanity and if we do not flatter our selves we shall find that we know nothing but is or may be controverted Divinity it self is not exempted from it and as for the other Sciences and Arts those great many Volumes that we have of them sufficiently testifie the same And this hath moved the Pyrrhonians and Scepticks to doubt and question all things and hath brought forth severall Books of the vanity of Sciences the Astrology the Medicine the Jurisprudence and the naturall Physick are daily moved and shaken and see their foundations totter Ramus did overthrow Aristotle's Philosophy Copernicus Ptolomey's Astrologie Paracelsus Galen's Physick So that every one hath followers and disciples and all appearing plausible We have much ado whom to believe and thereby are constrained to confesse that what we know is much lesse then what we know not I greatly esteem Michael Mountanus's Judgment who is the honour of our Age upon this point for it is consonant to reason and my opinion hereupon is for the most part agreeing with his and especially with that is the subject matter of this Treatise Amongst a thousand rare thoughts that he hath upon it he alledges a most exquisite similitude by which he compares learned persons to the ears of corn which being well fill'd do bow down their heads for after they have learned all Sciences and have consumed themselves in them they are constrained to confesse that they know nothing by the acknowledgment of that great Philosopher in these words Hoc unum scio quòd nihil scio I know this one thing that I know nothing If then we be ignorant of all things may we not yield that we can be ignorant of heavenly things especially and that they are praise-worthy who have endeavoured to raise their contemplations and meditations up into Heaven and having as it were loosened their Souls from their bodies have made it to wander and run through the Vaults and concavities of Heaven there to observe those things which were above our reach Our understanding being heavenly and our Soul full of knowledg perfection is not ignorant of these things but the lump corpulency of the body which is its prison hinders it freely to perform its functions it would willingly rise up and at every moment lenche it self up towards the place of its original but the weight of its body keeps it low and under and the mixture of the Elements wherewith the body is composed makes its agility dull and heavy If before the Invention of Artillery of Printing of Prospect-glasses and of infinite number of other Inventions that in these times are practised their effects had been told to us we had never believed them for if it had been asserted That with the powder without stirring we might kill beasts distant from us and not onely the beasts on the earth but also the fowls and birds flying high through the ayr throw down walls of Cities
and batter and thunder down the strongest places and that in a moment those instruments should execute our will That by printing and the letters we might communicate our thoughts to another and write in a short time a number infinite of books and even write a thousand times faster then we speak transmit and leave to our posterity our exquisite conceptions and get an immortal name And that by the prospective glasses we might approach to objects far distant strengthen our sight and make us distinctly to see things sar remote If these things I say had been proposed to us in a time wherein farther speech and enquire had never more been made of it who had believed them but rather who had not laughed at them and derided the first motioner of them and yet experience daily sheweth the effects of these Inventions to be true So the former Ages did condemne as hereticks those who believed the Antipodes and this belief was a long time held for a false and ridiculous opinion Christophorus Columbus was rejected of divers Kings when he proposed to them the discovery of the West-Indies and yet his propositions have been found very true and have immortalised their Author So likewise do I hope that time will bring forth the truth of this my opinion which I do not produce to the light without many strong Reasons and the authority of the most learned men the holy Scripture it self is not repugnant and contradictory to it but rather leans much towards my opinion And as touching those Philosophers who grant it not some deny not but that this may be others dare not contradict it and others have so ridiculous reasons that I cannot imagine weaker can be found and considering all they no more then I have ascended into Heaven and therefore who ever hath the best Reasons ought to be believed which being doubtlesse on my side my opinion ought not at all to be esteemed ridiculous Democritus King of the Abderitanes constantly smiled because the World could not apprehend the multiplicity of Worlds I like him have also sufficient occasion to smile and laugh at those who are ignorant of the plurality of the Worlds and even to compare them to bruit beasts which eat the fruits of the Earth without considering whence they come to them for Man is lodged in this World to contemplate in it the wonders that God exposes to the sight of his eyes and to which end he hath given him a face looking upward for to look up to Heaven but he will not make use of his gifts nor enquire after the place of their habitation Why open ye not your eyes O ye learned and wise Men and why awake ye not out of your slumber and deep sleep Awake up the eyes of your Understanding and Reason towards the Heavens contemplating the wonderfull things thereof despise the earthly things and as true Philosophers consider the rest of Men in a dunghill having their thoughts low and Earthly Souls which not being able to stretch themselves beyond the limit of their weak activity dare even accuse those who by noble projects desire to lend them their hands for to draw them out of their ignorance Having then so many and so good Reasons and authority on my behalf I shall not longer fear those who scarce can find any for the confirmation of their opinion or what they have is so weak that the building that the edifice is upon tottereth and leans on every side therefore will I not fear those backbiting tongues which envy anothers good repute and fame which I already foresee in great number opened against me but I shall justly say that they accuse God and Nature of weaknesse and insufficiency and their own proper reason of incapacity Can it be possible that so many rare and great persons who in former Ages did believe it and whose memory is by us honoured and reverenced had erroneous opinions and that so many pertinent reasons should have no solid ground Could it be possible that you would not willingly hearken to those who desire to free you from your mistakes nor suffer your eyes to be unfolded when they be folded with the vail of Preoccupation No I hope that some of the most reasonable at least will be found who will adhere to me and take my part against the assaults of the ignorants who endeavour to discredit me thinking to obtain great glory for the endeavouring the overthrow of so great a project for that is their ordinary scope Alta petit livor praestant altissima venti Alta petunt dextrâ fulmina miss a Jovis That is Envy nothing but high things emulates As by the whirlwinds shaken are high States And the thunders of great Jupiter the god of gods Fall upon the Steeples and not upon the Valleys But I shall smile at them in my heart and applaud my self if none can be found to second me hoping that the Ages to come will produce men more reasonable and who better esteeming my conceptions will accuse this present Age of great ingratitude Chap. II. Proving the plurality of the Worlds by a reason taken from the place wherein are ingendred the Comets PRoclus Cardanus Telessius and others have observed That most of the Comets are formed not onely out of the Region of the Meteors but even far above the Moon and Tycho Brabe that great Astrologian who by his exquisite and rare Observations hath gotten an everlasting name discoursing of it hath asserted That all the Comets are formed above the Moon even according to Kepler as high as the Sun Now it 's Impossible for the vapours to pierce and penetrate into the fiery Region there to be changed into Comets even far above it considering that according to all the Philosophers Judgment the fiery Region is under the concavity of the Moon and so these Comets are formed out of the exhalations of other Lands which are the Starres it 's so clear and perspicuous that I cannot believe that any Man is so void of Reason as to deny it If it be objected That it cannot positively and certainly be known that the Comets are above the region of the Moon I shall send them to the School of Astrologie which teaches by true Rules and Demonstrations the way to measure all the bodies and their far distances from the earth the which Galileus a Person of great fame and renown in this our Age hath confirmed by such like Observations Chap. III. Proving the same by another Argument taken from the bignesse and continuancy of the Comets THE same Astrologers have observed That some Comets have so vaste and great bodies that it 's impossible to believe that the exhalations of this Earth could furnish them sufficiently with matter but I shall dare to go beyond and shall say That though all the Earth should be dissolved into vapours and exhalations yet it could not form so great Comets and of such long continuancy as those which sometimes have been seen
its motion in 24. houres be alienated from it It 's also objected That the Towers would fall and that the Clouds and Rivers would all follow the course of the Earth But I answer That the Clowds are agitated by the winds and therefore cannot follow the course of the earth and as for the Towers they cannot fall considering that the Earth's motion is not violent and that the Towers by reason of their ponderosity bend still towards the Center of the earth and are not removed from their situation And as touching the Rivers the earth being as a gall-nut a River may run towards the East by the bending of its Seats towards the center of the earth although the Earth tends towards the West which may easily be apprehended if we conceive that a man walking in a Ship directs his steps towards the East whilest that the Ship sayles to the West Many severall other Reasons are objected which are but weak but because there are divers Discourses touching the Earth's motion which resolve them and reconcile the places of the holy Scripture upon this subject matter amongst whom are Foscarinus and Barantzanus I shall desire the curious Readers to read them and shall content my self with what I have said Chap. XIII Proving the Plurality of the Worlds by the variety of all natural things NAture is various in all its operations and God hath put such variety in all his Works that we can find nothing uniform in this world all things in it are various and different and this great diversity causes us the more to admire the Creator of this whole Fabrick If it be so concerning the earth which is near-upon the smallest of all the Globes what will it not be of the heavenly which are incomparably greater For this cause did Campanella say That though God and Nature do nothing in vain yet such a great number of Stars greater then the earth would be in vain if there was not in them divers demonstrations of the Idea's of God It 's then consonant to reason that not only the four Elements be in every one of the Starres but also that Men Bsasts and Plants and all whatsoever is seen amongst us be in them And thus did this famous Person of our time speak Chap. XIV Of the measures and dimensions of the Stars and their distance from the Earth and proportions with it with an argument taken from those distances for to prove the multiplicity of Worlds BUt because we have often mentioned the bignesse of the Stars and how they exceed the Earth in extension and also spoken of their infinite distances It will not be out of purpose and beyond our present Discourse to insert them in this Chapter These distances are somewhat variously given by divers Authors but the difference being but small is not of great concernment to us Charles Rapineus gives these distances in his book called Nucleus Philosophiae The Moon is lesser then the Earth 39 times and according to Cardan thirty nine times and a half Mercury is lesser then the Earth by 1100 times Venus by 37 times The Sun is greater then the Earth by 166 times Mars by 1 time Jupiter by 95 times Saturn by 91 times The fixt Stars are innumerable but those that are observed by the Astrologians are 1022 and are of proportions of bignesse Those of the first magnitude are 15 in number and are bigger then the Earth by 117 times Those of the second magnitude are 45 and are bigger then the Earth by 90 times Those of the third are 208 and are bigger then the earth by 70 times Those of the fourth are 472 and are bigger then the Earth by 54 times Those of the fifth are 17 and are bigger then the Earth by 37 times Those of the sixth are 49 and 5 dark and 9 bright ones and are all bigger then the Earth by 18 times The concavity of the Moon is distant from the Center of the Earth 14291 leagues which are 28541 miles From the Center of the Earth to Venus there is 542749 miles To the Sun 3640000 miles To Mars 3965000 miles To Jupiter 28845000 miles To Saturn 46816250 miles To the Concavity of the Firmament 65357500 miles The thicknesse of the Moons round is of 99504 miles Mercury's round is of 334208 miles That of Venus of 3097251 miles That of the Sun 32500 miles That of Mars 248820000 miles That of Jupiter 17969250 miles That of Saturn 18541250 miles That of the Firmament 55357500 miles The diameter of the Earth is of ten thousand and eight hundred miles But Cardanus saith of 10000 miles It s circumference is of 32400 miles and according to Cardanus of 31000 miles and a half It s semidiameter or half diameter is of 5000 miles These things being thus is it not very like that so huge and vaste bodies so distant one from the other should hide and contain in themselves something as well as the Earth at least those that move and are Planets as It is and that turn round the bright body of the Sun which communicates his light to them all Chap. XV Wherein the plurality of Worlds is proved by a Reason drawn from the colour of the Stars IF we see and punctually discern not onely with Jacob's staffe but also with our own sight without the help of any instrument a great diversity in the Stars in their bignesse colour light and other circumstances Shall we not say That those various colours do testifie their various nature and their bodily mixtures and that they may consequently be bodies as well as the Earth Chap. XVI Proving the same because that there is nothing empty nor vain in nature WE cannot remark any thing empty in the whole Nature this passes for a sure Maxim therefore did Hermes in his Asclepe say That all the parts of the World are very full the whole World is full of Globes or Stars these Stars and especially the Earth which we inhabit is filled with Seas Rivers four-footed Beasts Men Birds Minerals the waters are filled with Fishes these things have yet in themselves and unto their very Center so great a variety that their anatomy drawes us to admiration In a word we may lose our selves in the subdividing of them And why may not the Stars be so too seeing that as it hath already been proved in the foregoing Chapter we may see and observe in them some certain variety especially in the Moon where Mountains and Waters evidently appear and may very well be discerned with a good Prospective glasse with which Instrument is a notable Mountain discerned in Mars Chap. XVII Proving the plurality of Worlds by the plurality of Men and because things above are as things below GReat Mercurius Trismegistus who for his eximious Learning hath obtained the name of Thrice most Great hath left us this notable Aphorism That things below are as things above and vice versa those above as them below the meaning is That this World is an example to
Heavens and that in the Heavens whereunto he humbles himself there are Inhabitants as well as in the Earth And in the Ps. 148. he bids the Angels Stars and Earth c. to praise him That is to say he spoke thus to the Inhabitants thereof by a figure which takes the continent for the thing conteined Ecclesiasticus saith in his 16. chap. and 18 19 20 21. verses Behold the Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens the deep and the Earth and all that therein is shall be moved and the Foundations of the Earth shall be shaken with trembling when he shall visit them and who can conceive his wayes for the most part of his works are hid And in the chap. 43. ver. 32. saith that There are yet hid greater things then these be for we have seen but a few of his works By these two places it plainly appears that those things which we have not seen and are greater then any that we know are somewhere else then in this Earth viz. in the Heavens and that consequently there is more then one World I might yet alledge divers other Scriptures as that of the 2. chap. to the Phillip verse 10. and Psalm 89. verse 7. But that I may not be too tedious I shall not make farther mention of others Chap. XLIV How the naked truth of the plurality of Worlds may be discovered and especially what is in the Moon BUt being we have neither the wings of birds nor the eyes of Eagles or Lynxes nor can heap up Mountains one upon another as Gyants how can we see perspicuously the things that are in the Moon and in the other etherial bodies To this I answer That those ancient Ages have shewed us the way by the Tower of Babel by Pyramides and Phares from the top of which scarce could men be discovered and perceived and from those tops were discovered Countreys of far distance immortalizing the memory of their Authors It would be requisite that a King or great Prince desirous by emulation to immortalize his name would set poor prisoners with other Workmen to the Work that from it being high elevated up into the Ayr we might more distinctly behold by the help of the Prospective-glasses what is within the Stars and chiefly in the Moon no doubt such a Tower would serve much being built upon a very high Hill But if it be objected That there are very high Mountains from which neverthelesse no new thing can be seen I answer That besides that no body went to try it with a Prospect-glasse those Mountains though high by reason of their crookednesse are not very high if we consider them perpendicularly and yet it hath been observed that from the highest Hill of Mount Pyreneus the Sun appears more majesticall then ordinarily which cannot proceed but from the heighth of that Mountain And though nothing could be discovered from such a Tower which I cannot believe yet it would be a work of immortal name to that Prince who would do it And that it may be out of doubt that from a high Mountain or some such place high elevated something may be seen and observed in the Stars Bethancour in his Travels asserts That from the top of Tenerisa a very high Mountain in the Canaries the Sun may be seen to turn round upon himself without the help of any Prospective-glasses Secondly it 's most certain That if the Prospective-glasses can be brought to a full perfection that many things will be discovered new in the Stars and at the first time that they were invented divers things have already been discovered for Galileus and Descartes declare that there may be made Prospective-glasses that shall multiply the object a thousand times in his bignesse If it be so what is there in the Firmament that may not perspicuously be seen Lastly some have imagined that as Man hath imitated the Fishes in swimming that he may also find out the Art of flying and that by such an artifice he may without any other help see the truth of this question the Histories relate to us some Examples of men that have flown Many Philosophers think it feasable and amongst others Roger Bacon I might here relate all those Examples and divers Reasons for it yea some instruments and engines for that effect but I shall shew these things in my Book of Naturall Magick and in my discourse de arte volandi because though one could attain the Art of flying yet it would avail him but little for this purpose because that besides by reason of his weight he could not rise very high he could not remain fixt to behold Heaven or to make use of Prospective-glasses but would wholly bend his mind to the guiding of his Engine Chap. XLV Of Scipio's Dream with some new Reason upon this subject-matter VVE read in several Authors that Scipio dreamed a very notable dream wherein he thought that he was carried up high and that he saw other Worlds in the Stars whence he perceived the Roman Empire and seeing it from very far found that it took so little room in this our Terrestrial Globe that upon that he conceived an exceeding great contempt of those who despising their life did venture it for to get a famous name though but vain in that little corner of the Earth Both Cicero and Macrobius have composed Books concerning this Dream and have doubted under what sort of dreams this was to be entred For my part I think that it must be called a Vision being he saw things that are reall viz. the airy Lands and the Stary and Planeticall people Or it may be that having such a belief he was desirous to propose it as many others in such like case have done thereby to see how it would be received And truly if this was his scope he hath had no bad successe for it hath been embraced by many illustrious Persons who have found it consonant to Reason Besides all this Is it not beyond all reason and appearance that so many huge and vaste bodies as the Stars are should remain barren and fruitlesse I think that if I should discourse orderly and gradually with the most opinionative man that is that I should obtain of him that those bodies whereof some are three hundred times bigger then the Earth do at least bear some plants and if this were granted how could these plants be there if they were not for the use of some living Creatures and if it could be granted that there be some creatures may it not also be granted that there are Men for to make use of them being they are made for them And lastly is it not lawfull and equall that there be men whither soever their dominion reaches but Man rules the Stars as well as the Earth and Sea the whole World is made for him and consequently there must needs be some Inhabitants in the Stars Chap. XLVI Answering the Objection of those who believe that the Spots of the Moon are the figure of