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wherfore conninge is a straunger. Opinion is whyl a thing is in
non-certayn, and hid from mens very knowleging, and by no parfit
reson fully declared, as thus: if the sonne be so mokel as men
wenen, or els if it be more than the erthe. For in sothnesse the
certayn quantitè of that planet is unknowen to erthly dwellers; and
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yet by opinion of some men it is holden for more than midle-erth.
The first spece of philosophie is naturel; whiche in kyndely
thinges †treteth, and sheweth causes of heven, and strength of