Praeterea si quae penitus corpuscula rerum ex altoque foras mittuntur, solis uti lux ac vapor, haec puncto cernuntur lapsa diei per totum caeli spatium diffundere sese perque volare mare ac terras caelumque rigare, quid quae sunt igitur iam prima fronte parata, cum iaciuntur et emissum res nulla moratur? quone vides citius debere et longius ire multiplexque loci spatium transcurrere eodem tempore quo solis pervolgant lumina caelum? Hoc etiam in primis specimen verum esse videtur quam celeri motu rerum simulacra ferantur, quod simul ac primum sub diu splendor aquai ponitur, extemplo caelo stellante serena sidera respondent in aqua radiantia mundi.
Besides, if those particles of things that are sent forth from their depths, like the suns light and heat, are observed to glide and diffuse themselves abroad in a moment of time through the whole space of heaven, to fly over the sea and land and to flood the sky, what then of those which are ready on the very outside, when they are cast off and nothing impedes their discharge? Do you not see that they must travel so much the faster and farther, and run over many times the space in the same time as the suns light takes to spread abroad over the sky? This further seems a true and pre-eminent indication to show with how rapid a motion the images are borne along, that as soon as the brightness of water is laid in the open air under a starry sky, at once the serene constellations of the firmament answer back twinkling in the water.
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