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# Title: Nicolai Mercatoris Holsati, è Soc. Reg. Institutionum Astronomicarum Libri Duo, De Motu Astrorum Communi & Proprio, Secundum Hypotheses Veterum & Recentiorum præcipuas; Deqve Hypotheseon ex observatis constructione (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 63)
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ASTRONONIA
 
neris est valde incredibile, sic contundi iplorum regiones,
quas permeane. Ouineriam ob analogiam inter Terram d
caeteros Planetas, quarenus omnes sune opaci, d redlexo
lumine cerra, sicur cxceri, Fulget, ur ex splendore nubiun
reflectencium, ex illustrarione Lunae manifeltum est; lrem
omnes (quantum licuir observare) superticiebus asperis ter
minancur, _ instar terra circa proprios ares, colque ad
Felipricam inclinacos moru diurno converruntur, adeoque
limili dierum ex noctium, sestaris es hyemis vicissitdine
Baudene; imo ex asseclis perinde lunaribus sipaneur, su
pirer quidem quacuor, ex Sacurnus rribus, quos etiai FC
lipsibus afficiune, ex ab iis vicissim afficiuntur: ob hanc,
inquam, analosiam Terra inter Planeras rumerari, Sol au
cem, quod parem non habear, in unico omnium centO
constirui debere videtur. Praelerrim cum non tamiim sin
sulorum morus, si e Solespectarentur, Patis unitormes aP
Parerent, ex à Sole dictantia ubique fere sinc aequabiles.
quae a Terra sunc admodum inxquales; sed etiam Ciderum
circum. Forialium periodi respectu Solis sine magis regulares,
quam e Terra conspiciuneur. Fir quemadimodum istoruc
liderum periosi sune incer se in racione sesquiplicata distaniia
rum a cenerali fore (hocest, quadrara remporum, in quibuh
ablolvune periodos sidereas, sunc uc cubi distanciarum:
Sole;) quod idem quoque de afeclis Sacurni verum ell
adeo uc hiaec moruum exlectium concentralium lex generalih
esse videatur: Sic eriam primariorum PlanCEAruM FeMPOTA
periodica sunc in ratione sesquiplicara medioerium distan-
riarum à Sole, ut annocarie Replerus; indeque hi pro circum
Solaribus haberi debene.
Acque hinc est, quod plerique hodie Actronomi Coper
nicanum mundi Syctema, ue longe probabilius alio quoris
amplectuntur. Ouod perinde e nos in sequencibus illustrare
conabimur; quanquam in Luminarium mocibus explicandis
Tychonianus calculus cxereris fere palmam praeripit. Quare
ex hane Luminarium Theoriam Tycbonianam prius enuclea
Bimus, _e in moru Lunx atque Fclipsibus urriusque Luminaris
iupputandis recinebimus.