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| (67) Non in celum lune; quia cum organum sue virtutis sive influentie sit ipsa luna, et ipsa tantum declinet per zodiacum ab equinoctiali versus polum antarticum quantum versus arcticum, ita elevasset ultra equinoctialem sicut citra; quod non est factum. Nec valet dicere quod illa declinatio non potuit esse propter magis appropinquare terre per ecentricitatem; quia si hec virtus elevandi fuisset in luna, cum agentia propinquiora virtuosius operentur, magis elevasset ibi quam hic. | (67) Not to the heaven of the moon; for, since the organ of its power or influence is the moon herself, and since she departs as far from the equinoctial towards the antarctic pole as towards the arctic, she would elevate it as much on the other side as on this side of the equinoctial, which does not take place. Nor will it do to say that this declination could not take place because of her greater approximation to the earth, due to excentricity; because if the moon had this power of elevation at all (since agents operate with greater power the nearer they are), she would have raised it more there than here. |