The history of the world, commonly called the Naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus (1634)
Pliny, the Elder, Holland, Philemon, 1552-1637, tr · London, A. Islip · leaf 70
rSjas candks or any other lights from out of darknes.For thefe caules alfo the Moone in the nightfcafon is eclipfed onely.But the reafon why the Sunnc and Moone are not both in the eclipfe atfet times and monthly,is the winding obliquitk of the Zodiake, and the wandering turnings ofthe Moone one… … The lecond Boolce of fifl if. XI. G }^ ofthema^mtnde of Starts. He reafon of this lifteth iip mens minds into heaven ? and as jftheybelrddandlooked downefrom thence, dilcovei^utito them,the magnitude of the thicegrcateft parts of the whole wqtld.For the Siinnes lightcoiiid not wholly be ta^ken away…
Pre-Linnean works · Natural history
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