nor can there be any reason given why that greater light should represent her body under a false colour.
2. 'Tis not such a duskish leaden light, as we see in the darker part of her body, when shee is about a sextile Asp & distant from the Sunne, for then why does shee appeare red in the eclipses, since the more shade cannot choose such variety, for 'tis the nature of darknessee by its opposition, rather to make things appeare of a more white and clear brightnesse then they are in themselves, or if it be the shade, yet those parts of the Moone are then in the shade of her body, and therefore in reason should have the like rednesse. Since then neither of these lights are hers, it followes that she hath none of her owne. Nor is this a singular opinion, but it hath had many learned patrons, such was Macrobius[1], who being for this quoted of Rhodiginus, he calls him
- ↑ Somn. Scip. l. 1. c. 20.
