Baronius saies[1], it was because hee thought there was another habitable world within ours. How ever, you may well enough discerne in these examples how confident many of these great Schollars were in so grosse an errour, how unlikely, what an incredible thing it seemed to them, that there should be any Antipodes, and yet now this truth is as certaine and plaine, as sense or demonstration can make it. This then which I now deliver is not to be rejected, though it may seeme to contradict the common opinion.
2. Grosse absurdities have beene entertained by generall consent. I might instance in many remarkeable examples, but will onely speake of the supposed labour of the Moone in her eclipses, because this is neerest to the chiefe matter in hand, and was received as a common opinion amongst ma-
- ↑ Annal. Eccles. A.D. 748.
