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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26110	Astronomy's advancement, or, News for the curious being a treatise of telescopes, and an account of the marvelous astronomical discoveries of late years made throughout Europe : with the figures of the sun, moon, and planets, with Copernicus his system, in twelve copper plates : also, an abstract to ching the distance, faces, bulks, and orbs of the heavenly bodies, the best way of using instruments for satisfaction, &c. out of the best astronomers, ancient and modern, viz. Mr. Hook, Mr. Bouilleau, Mr. Hevelius, Father Kircher, &c. / done out of French by Jos. Walker.	Walker, Joseph.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4084; ESTC R5939	21,942	80

Lib. 1. Ovid. Metam Lib. 15. It was then by reason of Evaporations of the Sun which cover'd its shining face and darkned its light and diminished its heat SECT V. Of what hath been Observed in the Moon BEsides what is commonly to be seen in the Moon by the naked Eye to wit that she changeth her Face according as she turns towards the Sun and that together with what Light she hath she hath also black Irregular Spots the same Instrument hath farther inform'd us that the Lucid parts of her Body are Rugged and Protuberant and as some conjecture is like the Earth and the rest which consists in Spots as the same Authors say resembles the Sea Also that the Surface of this Planet is set all over with certain round hollows like Pits or Wells of several Magnitudes all and every of which some unadvisedly take to be so many Mountains but that they are rather a kind of Cavities and liker Wells or Pits than Mountains is apparent in regard their shade is towards the Sun and not opposite that is to say beyond these Concavities or Wells And these be all the Shades which is remarkable in the Disque of the Moon for to imagine as a great many do that these Spots are so many Shadows produced by the Sun by reason of Hills and Valleys which all Antiquity supposed to be in the Moon is not true for when the Moon is full and opposite to the Sun these pretended Shades in this Planet should by consequence disappear which yet is not so Note That in our Figure all the abovesaid hollows are represented without shade because being a Figure of the Full Moon the Sun doth throughly enlighten them at other times as at the Quarters they shew themselves shaded in the part towards the Sun And although the Face of the Moon is full of Wrinkles yet nevertheless there appears no Shadow whether it be that the Shades of these Wrinkles are insensible for their smalness or else that they be transparent to the Sun Beams which is the Opinion of Galileo who esteems the Moon to be like the Mother of Pearl shewing knobs and redness where there is none It is true that some of these Wells or Hollows seem to be all black in the Full Moon but that is without doubt because that these Cavities are of the nature of the Spots whereof we speak The Diameter of these Wells or Pits consider'd in regard of the Moon which contains about 650 French Leagues contain some more some less the greatest of all is that of A. B. which by computation contains about 20 Leagues Let us farther observe in this Planet the admirable mixture of its Lucidities and Spots those surprising Varieties those Resemblanoes of Forests of Forests of Rushes which seem scatter'd here and there those kinds of Spiders Legs those kinds of Polygones and especially the appearances of Beams of Light arising out of these profound Wells as of the abovesaid A. B. To conclude all the great variety of these things cannot seem to happen by chance but that they were so disposed by the Soveraign Creator for some end and reason unknown unto us And indeed the Eighth Psalm informs us that this Planet as also the Stars is the work of Gods Fingers Mark the word Fingers All which being consider'd and for other Reasons we cannot say that the Moon is a World filled with Inhabitants Animals and Plants as many ancient Philosophers have imagin'd but rather a certain Vapour or Cloud probably condensed with Cold which is evident inasmuch as this Star by day appears as a common Cloud which Cloud were it raised to the height of the Moon and that it were as big it would shine in the Night after the same manner Add hereunto that the Pillar of the Cloud which conducted the Israelites in the Wilderness was a Cloud by Day and a Pillar of Fire by Night We judge that all the Stars of Heaven except the Sun are of the same substance the Moon is of It is moreover a great wonder that this Nocturnal Light appears unto us here below to have borrow'd the likeness of a Womans Face in her Disque Plutarch hath writ a Treatise expressly wherein he saith this Figure of a Human Face was in the Mouth and Hands of all the World although it is certain that some of great Wit and exquisit Judgment do protest they do not perceive any Image of a Womans Face in this Planet But Plutarch himself gives a Reason of this mistake saying that it is because those People have the sight low and weak uncapable of well perceiving the Lineaments of this Face or rather it is because their thoughts are not intent upon the Design Picture or Portraicture For my part before I attained to be Six years of Age I already fancy'd the form of a Face in this Planet which also most People in the World think they do Besides let us observe this Face in the Moon with the Telescope and let us consider it altogether and severally then you will say this Human Face will no more be seen but only certain Irregular Vapours without any order which have no likeness unto any Representation whatsoever 1. Our Telescope hath also inform'd us that there is first an Atmosphere or Orb which is supposed to be of a very thin Vaporous Air which encompasseth all the Superficies of the Moon as round the Earth there consists the like Orb of Vaporous and Cloudy Air which containeth the first Regions of the Air. 2. The Telescope hath farther given us to understand a thing very surprising in the Moon which is that in her Eclipse when it is Eclipsed a Fingers breadth or two to the Naked Eye it is not at all Eclipsed if you look on it with the Telescope and when it is quite freed from the Eclipse in the Telescope it yet appears to be Eclipsed a Finger or two's breadth to the naked Eye Upon this matter see the Hydrogr of Father Fournier wherein are given some Examples of this Phenomenon 3. This Telescope hath farther given us the knowledge of a thing more strange and wonderful to wit that although the Moon being low near the Horizon appears greater unto the naked Eye and being mounted towards the Zenith appears less it is found that when its Visual Diameter comes to be measured in both these places the quite contrary doth appear to wit that she is less when she is low near the Horizon and greater when she is mounted towards the Zenith THE FULL MOON ACCORDING TO Mr. HEVELIUS 4. Let us instance in a fourth thing which relates unto the Moon which is that although for time out of mind it hath been believed that the Longitudes of the World may be obtained by means of the Eclipses of this Planet nevertheless Observations do not thereto agree and do very much disagree from the Longitudes of our Maps of the World whereupon see the Hydrogr of Father Fournier which gives a greater number