The Apparitions of the Moon.
Phases Lunæ.
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The _Moon_ shineth
not by her own _Light_
but that which is borrowed
of the _Sun_.
_Luna_, lucet
non sua propria _Luce_,
sed mutuatâ
a _Sole_.
For the one half of it
is always enlightned,
the other remaineth darkish.
Nam altera ejus medietas
semper illuminatur,
altera manet caliginosa.
Hereupon we see it in
_Conjunction_ with the _Sun_, 1.
to be obscure,
almost none at all;
Hinc videmus, in
_Conjunctione Solis_, 1.
obscuram, imo nullam:
in _Opposition_, 5.
whole and clear,
(and we call it
the _Full Moon_;)
in _Oppositione_, 5.
totam & lucidam,
(& vocamus
_Plenilunium_;)
sometimes in the half,
(and we call it the _Prime_, 3.
and _last Quarter_, 7.)
alias dimidiam,
(& dicimus _Primam_, 3.
& _ultimam Quadram_, 7.)
Otherwise it waxeth, 2....4.
or waneth, 6....8.
and is said to be _horned_,
or more than half _round_.
Cæteroqui crescit, 2....4.
aut decrescit, 6....8.
& vocatur _falcata_,
vel _gibbosa_.