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No one will deny that the darker the surroundings are, the brighter every lighted body appears. When we consider the immensity of Space which is supported by no external properties and possesses no qualities in itself, one must easily understand that it does not receive light or brightness from the sun but transmits the solar rays freely without any interference. For this reason, it is completely dark in itself and is imperceptible to us. For this reason every body embraced in this darkened Space shines because of the solar rays it has absorbed and appears bright to us, with the result that the farther away such a body is, the brighter its light seems before our eyes, as can be seen in Book IV, Chapters 13 and 14, so that it finally arpears like a star.
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Von Guericke, O. (1994). The Appearance of the Moon and Its Spots. In: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4_118
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