y, to leese my labor: and you, to slip into light Iudgement,

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Before you haue learned sufficiently the powre of Nature and Arte.

Now, to procede: +%Astronomie%, is an Arte Mathematicall, which
demonstrateth the distance, magnitudes, and all naturall motions,
apparences, and passions propre to the Planets and fixed Sterres: for
any time past, present and to come: in respect of a certaine Horizon, or
without respect of any Horizon.+ By this Arte we are certified of the
distance of the Starry Skye, and of eche _Planete_ from the Centre of
the Earth: and of the greatnes of any Fixed starre sene, or _Planete_,
in respect of the Earthes greatnes. As, we are sure (by this Arte) that
the Solidity, Massines and Body of the _Sonne_, conteineth the quantitie
of the whole Earth and Sea, a hundred thre score and two times, lesse by
1/8 one eight parte of the earth. But the Body of the whole earthly
globe and Sea, is bigger then the body of the Mone, three and forty
times lesse by 1/8 of the Mone. Wherfore the _Sonne_ is bigger then the
_Mone_, 7000 times, lesse, by 59 39/64 that is, precisely 6940 25/64
bigger then the _Mone_. And yet the vnskillfull man, would iudge them a
like bigge. Wherfore, of Necessity, the one is much farder from vs, then
the other. The _Sonne_, when he is fardest from the earth (which, now,
in our age, is, when he is in the 8. degree, of Cancer) is, 1179
Semidiameters of the Earth, distante. And the _Mone_ when she is fardest
from the earth, is 68 Semidiameters of the earth and 1/3 The nerest,
that the _Mone_ commeth to the earth, is Semidiameters 52-1/4 The
distance of the Starry Skye is, from vs, in Semidiameters of the earth
20081-1/2 Twenty thousand fourescore, one, and almost a halfe. Subtract
from this, the _Mones_ nerest distance, from the Earth: and therof
remaineth Semidiameters of the earth 20029-1/4 Twenty thousand nine and
twenty and a quarter.

[Note.]

So thicke is the heauenly Palace, that the _Planetes_ haue all their
exercise in, and most meruailously perfourme the Commaundement and
Charge to them giuen by the omnipotent Maiestie of the king of kings.
This is that, which in _Genesis_ is called _Ha Rakia_. Consider it well.
The Semidiameter of the earth, conteineth of our common miles 3436 4/11
three thousand, foure hundred thirty six and foure eleuenth partes of
one myle: Such as the whole earth and Sea, round about, is 21600. One
and twenty thousand six hundred of ou