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seene there before, and tis not likely that a vapour being hard by us can so multiply that light which could not before be at all discerned.
2. This supposed vapour cannot be either contracted into a narrow compasse or dilated into a broad: 1. it could not be with in a little space, for then that starre would not appeare with the same multiplied light to those in other climates: 2. it cannot be a dilated vapour, for then other starres which were discerned through the same vapour would seeme as bigg as that; this argument is the same in effect with that of the paralax as you may see in this Figure.
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