divers alterations by reason of their food, this is fathered on Heraclitus,[1] followed by that great Naturalist Pliny,[2] and in generall attributed to all the Stoicks. You may see Seneca expressely to this purpose in these words, Ex illa alimenta omnibus animalibus, omnibus satis, omnibus stellis dividuntur, hinc profertur quo sustineantur tot Sydera tam exercitata, tam avida, per diem, noctemque, ut in opere, ita in pastu.[3] Speaking of the earth, he saies, from thence it is, that nourishment is divided to all the living creatures, the Plants and the Starres, hence were sustained so many constellations, so laborious, so greedy both day and night, as well in their feeding as working. Thus also Lucan sings, Necnon Oceano pasci Phœbumque polumque credimus.
Unto these Ptolome[4] also that learned Egyptian seemed to agree, when he affirmes that the body of the Moone is moister, and cooler than any of the other Planets, by
- ↑ Plutarch. de plac. philos. l. 2. c. 17.
- ↑ Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 9.
- ↑ Nat. Quæst. lib. 2. cap. 5.
- ↑ Io. Apost.
