“If any man have a minde to renew the opinion of the _Pythagoreans_, that the Moone is another earth, then her brighter parts may fitly represent the earths superficies, and the darker part the water: and for my part, I never doubted but that our earthly globe being shined upon by the Sunne, and beheld at a great distance, the Land would appeare brightest and the Sea more obscurely.” [Sidenote 1: _De facie lun._ _Dissertatio._ _Nunc. Syd._] The reasons may be. 1. That which I urged about the foregoing Chapter, because the water is the thinner part, and therefore must give the lesse light. 2. Because observation tels us, that the spotted parts are alwaies smooth and equall, having every where an equality of light, when once they are enlightened by the Sunne, whereas the brighter parts are full of rugged gibbosities and mountaines having many shades in them, as I shall shew more at large afterwards. That in this Planet there must be Seas, _Campanella_[1] indeavours to prove out of Scripture interpreting the _waters above the Firmament_ spoken of in _Genesis_ to be meant of the Sea in this world. For (saith he) ’tis not likely that there are any such waters above the Orbes to moderate that heate which they receive from their swift motion (as some of the Fathers thinke) nor did _Moses_ meane the Angells which may be called spirituall waters, as _Origen_ and _Austin_[2] would have it, for both these are rejected by the generall consent: nor could he meane any waters in the second region, as most Commentators interpret it. For first there is nothing but vapours, which though they are afterwards turned into water, yet while they remaine there, they are onely the matter of that element, which may as well be fire or earth, or aire. 2. Those vapors are not above the _expansum_, but in it. So that hee thinkes there is no other way to salve all, but by making the Planets severall worlds with Sea & Land, with such Rivers and Springs, as wee have here below: Especially since _Esdras_[3] speakes of the springs above the Firmament, but I cannot agree with him in this, nor doe I thinke that any such thing can be proved out of Scripture. [Sidenote 1: _Apologia pro Galilæo._] [Sidenote 2: _Confession. l. 13. c. 32._] [Sidenote 3: 2 Esdr. 4. 7.]