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our sight from a distinct view of her true circumference. But of this in the next Chapter.
I have now sufficiently proved, that there are hills in the Moone, and hence it may seeme likely that there is also a world, for since providence hath some speciall end in all its workes, certainly then these mountaines were not produced in vaine, and what more probable meaning can wee conceive there should be, than to make that place convenient for habitation.
Proposition 10.
That there is an Atmo-sphæra, or an orbe of grosse vaporous aire, immediately encompassing the body of the Moone.
AS that part of our aire which is neerest to the earth, is of a thicker substance than the other, by reason tis alwaies mixed with
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