God a stone, whereas not withstanding, they were so senslesse in their adoration of Idolls, as to make a stone their God, this Anaxagoras affirmed the Moone to be more terrestriall then the other, but of a greater purity then any thing here below, and the spots hee thought were nothing else, but some cloudy parts, intermingled with the light which belonged to that Planet, but I have above destroyed the supposition on which this fancy is grounded: Pliny[1] thinkes they arise from some drossie stuffe, mixed with that moysture which the Moone attracts unto her selfe, but hee was of their opinion, who thought the starres were nourished by some earthly vapours, which you may commonly see refuted in the Commentators on the bookes, de Cœlo.
Vitellio and Reinoldus[2] affirme the spots to be the thicker parts of the Moone, into which the Sunne cannot infuse much light,
- ↑ Nat. Hist. lib. 2. c. 9.
- ↑ Opt. lib. 9. Comment. in Purb. pag. 164.
