OBJECT. VIII.
* An other Idea of the Sun as taken from the Arguments of Astronomers, that is consequentially collected by me from certain natural notions.
At the same time we can certainly have but one Idea of the Sun, whether it be look’d at by our eyes, or collected by Ratiocination to be much bigger than it seems; for this last is not an Idea of the Sun, but a proof by Arguments, that the Idea of the Sun would be much larger, if it were look’d at nigher. But at different or several times the Ideas of the Sun may be diverse, as if at one time we look at it with our bare eye, at an other time through a Teloscope; but Astronomical arguments do not make the Idea of the Sun greater or less, but they rather tell us that the sensible Idea thereof is false.
ANSWER.
Here also (as before) what he says is not the Idea of the Sun, and yet is described, is that very thing which I call the Idea.