For, supposing the sun, which some have taken to be a fire, had been lighted up at the same distance of time that it now every day comes about to the same meridian, and then gone out again about twelve hours after, and that in the space of an annual revolution it had sensibly increased in brightness and heat, and so decreased again,-would not such regular appearances serve to measure out the distances of duration to all that could observe it, as well without as with motion?
Zeren, suposatuz gero eguzkia, batzuek sutzat hartu dutena, orain egunero meridiano berera datorren denbora-distantzia berera piztu dela, eta handik hamabi ordura itzali egin dela, eta urteko biran haren argia eta berotasuna nabariki gehitu direla, eta berriro gutxitu direla, ez ote lukete balioko agerpen erregular horiek-hautematerik lukeen ororentzat-iraupenaren distantzia higidurak bezain egoki neurtzeko.