An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

First, Some (because the word dwelleth notes a stay or an abode, for such is a dwelling place) answer the question geographically, and say, light dwelleth under the Poles. There are two poles of the earth, the Northern and the Southern, under both which interchangeably light and darkness abide six months together; and because of the long stay and abode of light and darkness there, Geographers reckon and conclude the dwelling of light and the place of darkness to be there, and that therefore the Sun hath two dwelling houses, one in the North, the other in the South.

First, Some (because the word dwelleth notes a stay or an abode, for such is a dwelling place) answer the question geographically, and say, light dwelleth under the Poles. There are two poles of the earth, the Northern and the Southern, under both which interchangeably light and darkness abide six moneths together; and because of the long stay and abode of light and darkness there, Geographers reckon and conclude the dwelling of light and the place of darkness to be there, and that therefore the Sun hath two dwelling houses, one in the North, the other in the South.

Secondly, When Astronomers answer these questions, Where is the way where light dwelleth? and where is the place of darkness? They say, The East is the place of light; and the West, the dwelling of darkness: And the reason given is this, Because the Sun riseth in the East, and goes down in the West, leaving ⟨p. 165⟩the World,¹ that half of the World upon which it shined in the day, over-shadowed with darkness. It is by the access and recess, by the rising and setting of the Sun, that we enjoy light or are wrapped up in darkness. And so East and West are called by the ancient Poets the houses or dwellings of the Sun.

1. 1Forvide Titan obitus pariter tecum Alcides vid it & Ortus; novitque tuas utrasque domos. Sen. in Herc.