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HAuing briefely described all the Circles as well greater as lesser that are imagined to be in the 8. heauen, I thinke it good now to speake somewhat of the starres and ce∣lestiall bodies placed in the saide heauen, And first of their substance, & then of their moouing, figure, shape, number, magni∣tude or greatnes, also of their Longitude,
Latitude, declination, ascention, descention both right and ob∣lique, and of the ascentionall difference, and finally of the thréefold Poeticall rising and going downe of the starres, but first of their substance.
Of what substance are the starres?
The starres bee of the same substance that the heauens are wherein they are placed, differing onely from the same in thicknes, and therefore some defining a starre doe say, that it is a bright and shining bodie, and the thickest part of his heauen, apt both to receiue and to reteine the light of the Sunne, and thereby is visible and obiect to the sight: for the heauen it selfe being most pure, thinne, transparent, and without colour is not visible, and for this cause the milke-white impression in heauen like vnto a white way called of the Astronomers Galaxia, and of the com∣mon people our Ladies way is visible to the eye, by reason that it is thicker then any other part of the heauen.
Why are not the starres seene as well in the day, as in the night.
Because they are darkened by the excellent brightnesse of the Sunne from whome they borrowe their chiefest light.