FROM WHENCE IS IT THAT THE MOON RECEIVES HER LIGHT?
Anaximander thinks that she gives light to herself, but it is very
slender and faint. Antiphon, that the moon shines by its own proper
light; but when it absconds itself, the solar beams darting on it
obscure it. Thus it naturally happens, that a more vehement light
puts out a weaker; the same is seen in other stars. Thales and his
followers, that the moon borrows all her light of the sun. Heraclitus,
that the sun and moon are after the same manner affected; in their
configurations both are shaped like boats, and are made conspicuous to
us, receiving their light from moist exhalations. The sun appears to us
more refulgent, by reason it is moved in a clearer and purer air; the
moon appears more duskish, it being carried in an air more troubled and
gross.