Now, to procede: +‡Astronomie‡, is an Arte Mathematicall, which demonstrateth the distance, magnitudes, and all naturall motions, apparences, and passions propre to the Planets and fixed Sterres: for any time past, present and to come: in respect of a certaine Horizon, or without respect of any Horizon.+ By this Arte we are certified of the distance of the Starry Skye, and of eche _Planete_ from the Centre of the Earth: and of the greatnes of any Fixed starre sene, or _Planete_, in respect of the Earthes greatnes. As, we are sure (by this Arte) that the Solidity, Massines and Body of the _Sonne_, conteineth the quantitie of the whole Earth and Sea, a hundred thre score and two times, lesse by ⅛ one eight parte of the earth. But the Body of the whole earthly globe and Sea, is bigger then the body of the Mone, three and forty times lesse by ⅛ of the Mone. Wherfore the _Sonne_ is bigger then the _Mone_, 7000 times, lesse, by 59 39/64 that is, precisely 6940 25/64 bigger then the _Mone_. And yet the vnskillfull man, would iudge them a like bigge. Wherfore, of Necessity, the one is much farder from vs, then the other. The _Sonne_, when he is fardest from the earth (which, now, in our age, is, when he is in the 8. degree, of Cancer) is, 1179 Semidiameters of the Earth, distante. And the _Mone_ when she is fardest from the earth, is 68 Semidiameters of the earth and ⅓ The nerest, that the _Mone_ commeth to the earth, is Semidiameters 52¼ The distance of the Starry Skye is, frõ vs, in Semidiameters of the earth 20081½ Twenty thousand fourescore, one, and almost a halfe. Subtract from this, the _Mones_ nerest distance, from the Earth: and therof remaineth Semidiameters of the earth 20029¼ Twenty thousand nine and twenty and a quarter. [Note.]