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que le soleil nous rend. Se la terre estoit si cler que
len peust veoir parmy tout oultre len verroit le so
leil continuellement au dessoubz et dessus de la ter
re. mais che quelle est si obscure le nous tolt a ve
oir parmy elle. Et lombre fait venir avant qui
sen va tousjours tournoiant encontre le soleil
et fait autant de tours entour la terre comme le
soleil fait comme celui qui tousjours va encon
tre lui. Et quant le soleil naist au matin en ori
ent lombre en est en occident. Et quant il est en
droit la terre cest adire a mydi. adont la terre
a lombre dessoubz elle. Et quant il couche en occi
dent lombre avons nous dessus. lequel sen
va ades abaissant le coing pardevers occident tant
que le soleil nous reluist qui nous donne le jour
Et che povez vous bien veoir certainement voire
se chest vostre plaisir sans nulle deffaullanche
par ches presentes figures que veez ychi pourtrait
tes. Comment la lune rechoipt diversement
sa clarte et lumiere poeut chascun veoir y chi:-

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that the sun gives us. If the earth were so transparent that
one could see right through it, one would see the
sun all the time, below the earth and above it.
But because the earth is so dark, it takes from us the
ability to see through it. And it causes the shadow
to constantly turn around the sun, so that it
makes as many turns around the earth as the sun does,
like something that is always in opposition to it [the sun].
And when the sun rises in the east in the morning,
the shadow is in the west. And when the sun is directly
above the earth, that is to say at noon, then the earth
has the shadow below it. And when the sun sets in the west
then we have the shadow above us, which gradually sinks
into the western corner until the sun
shines on us again, giving us the day.
And you can certainly see this, if it is your pleasure,
with nothing lacking, in the drawings that you see portrayed here.
[rubric:] Everyone can see here how the moon
receives its clarity and light differently: [/rubric]

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que le soleil nous rend. Se la terre estoit si cler que
len peust veoir parmy tout oultre len verroit le so
leil continuellement au dessoubz et dessus de la ter
re. mais che quelle est si obscure le nous tolt a ve
oir parmy elle. Et lombre fait venir avant qui
sen va tousjours tournoiant encontre le soleil
et fait autant de tours entour la terre comme le
soleil fait comme celui qui tousjours va encon
tre lui. Et quant le soleil naist au matin en ori
ent lombre en est en occident. Et quant il est en
droit la terre cest adire a mydi. adont la terre
a lombre dessoubz elle. Et quant il couche en occi
dent lombre avons nous dessus. lequel sen
va ades abaissant le coing pardevers occident tant
que le soleil nous reluist qui nous donne le jour
Et che povez vous bien veoir certainement voire
se chest vostre plaisir sans nulle deffaullanche
par ches presentes figures que veez ychi pourtrait
tes. Comment la lune rechoipt diversement
sa clarte et lumiere poeut chascun veoir y chi:-

91

that the sun gives us. If the earth were so transparent that
one could see right through it, one would see the
sun all the time, below the earth and above it.
But because the earth is so dark, it takes from us the
ability to see through it. And it causes the shadow
to constantly turn around the sun, so that it
makes as many turns around the earth as the sun does,
like something that is always in opposition to it [the sun].
And when the sun rises in the east in the morning,
the shadow is in the west. And when the sun is directly
above the earth, that is to say at noon, then the earth
has the shadow below it. And when the sun sets in the west
then we have the shadow above us, which gradually sinks
into the western corner until the sun
shines on us again, giving us the day.
And you can certainly see this, if it is your pleasure,
with nothing lacking, in the drawings that you see portrayed here.
[rubric:] Everyone can see here how the moon
receives its clarity and light differently: [/rubric]