observed the Mone in all his changes. In the new I discover
manifestlie the earthshine, a little before the Dichotomic,
that spot which reprefents unto me the Man in the Moone (but
without a head) is first to be feene. a little after neare the
brimme of the gibbous parts towards the upper corner appeare
luminous parts like starres much brighter then the rest and
the whole brimme along, lookes like unto the Description of
Coasts in the dutch bookes of voyages, in the full she
appeares like a tarte that my Cooke made me the last Weeke.
here a vaine of bright stuffe, and there of darke, and so
consufedlie al over. I muft confesse I can see none of this
without my cylinder. Yet an ingenious younge man that
accompanies me here often, and loves you, and these studies
much, sees manie of these things even without the helpe of the
instrument, but with it sees them most plainielie. I meane the
younge Mr. Protherbe.

Kepler I read diligentlie. but therein I find what it is to be
so far from you. For as himfelf, he hath almoft put me out of
my wits, his Aequanes, his sections of excentricities,
librations in the diameters of Epicycles, revolutions in
ellipses, have fo thoroughlie seased upon my imagination as I
do not onlie ever dreame of them, but oftentimes awake lose my
selfe, and power of thinkinge with to much wantinge to it. not
of his caufes for I cannot phansie those magnetical natures,
but aboute his theorie which me thinks (although I cannot yet
overmafter manie of his particulars) he eftablifheth soundlie
and as you say overthrowes the circular Aftronomie.

Do you not here startle, to see every day some of your