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Essays and Miscellanies

CHAPTER XXVIII
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FROM WHENCE IS IT THAT THE MOON RECEIVES HER LIGHT ?.
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Anaximander thinks that she gives light to herself, but it is very slender and faint.

Antiphon, that the moon shines by its own proper light; but when it absconds itself, the solar beams darting on it obscure it.

Thus it naturally happens, that a more vehement light puts out a weaker; the same is seen in other stars.

Thales and his followers, that the moon borrows all her light of the sun.


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