OBJECT. VIII.

* _An other Idea of the Sun as taken from the Arguments of Astronomers,

that is consequentially collected by me from certain natural notions._

At the same time we can certainly have but one _Idea_ of the Sun, whether

it be look’d at by our eyes, or collected by _Ratiocination_ to be much

bigger than it seems; for this last is not an _Idea_ of the Sun, but a

proof by Arguments, that the _Idea_ of the _Sun_ would be much larger, if

it were look’d at nigher. But at different or several times the _Ideas_

of the Sun may be diverse, as if at one time we look at it with our bare

eye, at an other time through a Teloscope; but Astronomical arguments do

not make the _Idea_ of the Sun greater or less, but they rather tell us

that the _sensible Idea_ thereof is _false_.

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