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nature jour et nuit estre sur terre. Il fait naistre le
jour par devers lui et daultre part est la terre umbreu
se qui est tenebreuse et obscure et ainsi laisse umbre
celle part la ou il ne poeut luire. et cest lombre de la
nuit que le deduit du jour nous tolt. Mais pour ce
que le soleil est plus grant que toute la terre va lom
bre a gresloiant si que en la fin il va a neant a la
maniere dun clochier que len fait par che eglises
Mais se le soleil et la terre estoient egalement dune
grandeur celui umbre navroit point de fin. ainchois
seroit tout egal sans declinement. Et se la terre estoit
plus grande lombre du soleil yroit eslargissant dont
vous en povez veoir la fourme et maniere en ches trois
figurez chi au doz pourtraites. Et si le povons prouver
aultrement sans figures. prenez aulcune chose obscure
qui puist retenir lumiere sicomme de fust ou daultre
pierre ou daultre chose qui soit telle que len puist ve
oir parmy si la mettez devant vous yeulx alencontre
de che que vous volez veoir ou le ciel ou la terre ou che
que vous vouldres. Se la chose que vous tendrez est plus
large que vous deux yeulx de loings elle vous touldra

day and night to be on the earth. It causes the day to be
born with it, and on the other side the earth is shadowy,
that is in shadow and dark, for it leaves in shadow
the part that it cannot shine upon. This is the shadow
of night, that takes from us the joy of day. But because
the sun is larger than the whole earth, the shadow
gradually shrinks so that at the end it comes to
nothing, like the sound of a church bell.
But if the sun and the earth were the same size,
the shadow would never come to an end, but rather
it would be equal in size without diminishment.
And if the earth were larger, the shadow of the
sun would continue to grow. You can see the form
and matter of this in the three figures portrayed on the other
side of this page. You can also prove it without drawings.
Take something dark that can retain light, like
a piece of wood or a stone, or something else that
can be seen if you put it between your eyes and
something that you want to see, whether that be the sky
or the earth or whatever you want. If the thing you
are holding is larger than the length of your two eyes,
it will prevent you

nature jour et nuit estre sur terre. Il fait naistre le
jour par devers lui et daultre part est la terre umbreu
se qui est tenebreuse et obscure et ainsi laisse umbre
celle part la ou il ne poeut luire. et cest lombre de la
nuit que le deduit du jour nous tolt. Mais pour ce
que le soleil est plus grant que toute la terre va lom
bre a gresloiant si que en la fin il va a neant a la
maniere dun clochier que len fait par che eglises
Mais se le soleil et la terre estoient egalement dune
grandeur celui umbre navroit point de fin. ainchois
seroit tout egal sans declinement. Et se la terre estoit
plus grande lombre du soleil yroit eslargissant dont
vous en povez veoir la fourme et maniere en ches trois
figurez chi au doz pourtraites. Et si le povons prouver
aultrement sans figures. prenez aulcune chose obscure
qui puist retenir lumiere sicomme de fust ou daultre
pierre ou daultre chose qui soit telle que len puist ve
oir parmy si la mettez devant vous yeulx alencontre
de che que vous volez veoir ou le ciel ou la terre ou che
que vous vouldres. Se la chose que vous tendrez est plus
large que vous deux yeulx de loings elle vous touldra

to be on the earth. It causes the day to be
born with it, and on the other side the earth is shadowy,
that is in shadow and dark, for it leaves in shadow
the part that it cannot shine upon. This is the shadow
of night, that takes from us the joy of day. But because
the sun is larger than the whole earth, the shadow
gradually attenuates so that at the end it comes to
nothing, like the sound of a church bell.
But if the sun and the earth were the same size,
the shadow would never come to an end, but rather
it would be equal in size without diminishment.
And if the earth were larger, the shadow of the
sun would continue to grow. You can see the form
and matter of this in the three figures portrayed on the other
side of this page. You can also prove it without drawings.
Take something dark that can retain light, like
a piece of wood or a stone, or something else that
can be seen if you put it between your eyes and
something that you want to see, whether that be the sky
or the earth or whatever you want. If the thing you
are holding is larger than the length of your two eyes,
it will prevent you