solque suos etiam dimittere languidus ignis tempore cur certo nequeat recreareque lumen, cum loca praeteriit flammis infesta per auras, quae faciunt ignis interstingui atque perire? Et cur terra queat lunam spoliare vicissim lumine et oppressum solem super ipsa tenere, menstrua dum rigidas coni perlabitur umbras, tempore eodem aliud nequeat succurrere lunae corpus vel supra solis perlabier orbem, quod radios interrumpat lumenque profusum? et tamen ipsa suo si fulget luna nitore, cur nequeat certa mundi languescere parte, dum loca luminibus propriis inimica per exit? Quod superest, quoniam magni per caerula mundi qua fieri quicquid posset ratione resolvi, solis uti varios cursus lunaeque meatus noscere possemus quae vis et causa cieret, quove modo possent offecto lumine obire et neque opinantis tenebris obducere terras, cum quasi conivent et aperto lumine rursum omnia convisunt clara loca candida luce, nunc redeo ad mundi novitatem et mollia terrae arva, novo fetu quid primum in luminis oras tollere et incertis crerint committere ventis.
And the sun, why should not he also be able to lose his fires and faint at a fixed time and to renew his light, when he has passed through regions of air that are hurtful to his flames, making the fires to be quenched and to perish for a time? And why should earth be able in turn to rob the moon of light, and herself passing above the sun to keep him in subjection, while the moon in her monthly course glides through the clear-cut conical shadow, yet at the same time some other body not be able to pass beneath the moon, or glide above the suns orb to intercept the rays and the flood of light? If, however, the moon shines of herself by her own light, why should she not grow faint in some fixed part of the heavens, while she passes through regions hostile to her own light? And now to proceed: since I have explained in what way everything might come to pass through the blue spaces of the great firmament, so that we might be able to understand what force and what cause set in motion the suns varied courses and the moons travels, how their light could be obstructed and they disappear veiling the unsuspecting world in darkness, when they seem to wink and again with open eye gaze on the whole place bright with clear light, I now return to the worlds infancy and the soft fields of earth, to tell what first they thought fit to bring forth into the regions of light with new birth-throes and to commit to the wayward winds.
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