OF THE PHASES OF THE MOON, OR THE LUNAR ASPECTS; OR HOW IT COMES TO
PASS THAT THE MOON APPEARS TO US TERRESTRIAL.
The Pythagoreans say, that the moon appears to us terraneous, by reason
it is inhabited as our earth is, and in it there are animals of a
larger size and plants of a rarer beauty than our globe affords; that
the animals in their virtue and energy are fifteen degrees superior to
ours; that they emit nothing excrementitious; and that the days are
fifteen times longer. Anaxagoras, that the reason of the inequality
ariseth from the commixture of things earthy and cold; and that fiery
and caliginous matter is jumbled together, whereby the moon is said to
be a star of a counterfeit aspect. The Stoics, that by reason of the
diversity of her substance the composition of her body is subject to
corruption.