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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85919	The first lecture of an introduction to cosmographie: being a description of all the vvorld. Read publiquely at Sr. Balthazar Gerbiers academy. Imprimatur, Hen: Scobell, Cleric: Parliamenti.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1649 (1649)	Wing G558; Thomason E584_6; ESTC R206228	9,183	20

fixed Stars are and the which never vary their scituation distance nor figure or shape and this Heaven is called by them the Firmament How the Astronomers divide the Stars or whether they be numberlesse or no AS for the fixed Stars we hold them to be numberlesse the Holy Scriptures giving us a testimony thereof I meane that besides the great infinite number that we see there are yet a far more infinit number of lesserstars which are by us not seen as hath been observed by certain Prospective Glasses made in Italy and though the Ancients have not marked above 1022. their meaning was not that there were no more Stars but that they had observed none but those as being only the cheifest which they had need of And those thousand twenty two Stars are divided into forty eight Constellations or Figures of Animalls which the Ancients have supposed for to discerne the one from the other and have separated and disposed of them into three ranks as Septentrionalls Zodiackes and Meridionalls Moreover the Stars are distinguisht by their severall Magnitudes or Bignesses which have been found to be six So that all the great Stars are of the first Bignesse the lesser of the second third fourth fifth and sixth magnitude or bignesse in which the least of them all are comprehended Whether or no the Stars be translucent of themselves and transparent THe Stars have no proper light of themselves save in this manner all the Stars and Planets are of one and the selfe-same Nature But the Moone hath no other light then what she borroweth of the Sunne so no more can any of the other Stars have any other light but from the Sun But suppose it be objected that the Moon loseth not altogether its light though she Eclipses in the shadow of the Earth because that in the Eclipsed party there appears a rednesse and that such a rednesse for ought we know might be her natural light I answer That that rednes cannot be her natural because that if it were so she would never quit that rednes save when she increases or that she is in her first quarter And then that part of the Moon which is not illuminated by the Sun ought to have that rednesse which is not so as we see by experience And therefore all rednesse is not naturall to the Moon Moreover if it be demanded from whence that rednesse proceeds its from the reflection of the lig 〈…〉 is encountered by the Moone in the shado 〈…〉 Earth For as the Moone is a polisht body 〈…〉 the shadow of the Earth is never destitute of some little light so it 's that little light which causes the rednesse in her So that by what is aforesaid it clearly appeares that the Sunne is the Principle of light it being Gods pleasure to adorn it with such an eminent quality Furthermore we say that the Stars are not so transparent as the Heaven is which may be seen by the Moon and Mercury when they are interposed between our eyes and the Sunne and that they Eclipse her And so its apparent that the Stars are both dusky and danky That the Heavens are round and that they move the one within the other from the East to the West their usuall course AS we have hitherto proved that there are eight Heavens so must we prove that they are round and that they turne the one within the other from East to West the which may appear unto us most manifestly for we see that the Sun the Planets and all the other Stars do rise first in the East on our Horizon then little by little they advance toward the South and that finally they set in the West so next againe they rise all in the East We will but instance in the Sun And say that it must be either the selfe same Sun or another which we daily see to rise and set It cannot be any other for that then every day would require a new one And if it be the same Sun it must either have past over within or underneath the Earth Over the Earth it cannot have past for as much as then there would have been no night the presence of the Sun causing the day neither can it have past within the Earth because as we shall see hereafter its greater then the Earth It remains then that it must have past underneath the Earth and that consequently its Orbe or Heaven turnes about the Earth And since all the Heavens turne the one within the other about the Earth and that from the East to the West we may justly then say that the Heavens are round It s also granted that the Heavens are round because that being they are the most noble part of the world and in which all the rest are contained it is most necessary that they should be of a round forme which is the most capablest and most perfectest of al others For if the Heavens had any other Figure or Forme those which are inferiour to the others could not possibly transport their Planets from the East to the West because of their Angles or else we must grant that they penetrate each other and so there would chance to be a penetration in the matter of the Heavens which would contradict what hath been formerly proved to wit that its matter or substance is both solide and fixt c. The End of the first Lecture concerning COSMOGRAPHY