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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
23
Having
thus
finished
their
discourse
of
the
Sun
and
Moon,
the
Empress
desired
to
know
what
Stars
there
were
besides?
But
they
answer'd,
that
they
could
perceive
in
that
World
none
other
but
Blazing
Stars,
and
from
thence
it
had
the
name
that
it
was
called
the
Blazing-World;
and
these
Blazing-Stars,
said
they,
were
such
solid,
firm
and
shining
bodies
as
the
Sun
and
Moon,
not
of
a
Globular,
but
of
several
sorts
of
figures:
some
had
tails;
and
some,
other
kinds
of
shapes.
After
this,
The
Empress
asked
them,
What
kind
of
substance
or
creature
the
Air
was?
The
Bird-men
answered,
That
they
could
have
no
other
perception
of
the
Air,
but
by
their
own
Respiration:
For,
said
they,
some
bodies
are
onely
subject
to
touch,
others
onely
to
sight,
and
others
onely
to
smell;
but
some
are
subject
to
none
of
our
exterior
Senses:
For
Nature
is
so
full
of
variety,
that
our
weak
Senses
cannot
perceive
all
the
various
sorts
of
her
Creatures;
neither
is
there
any
one
object
perceptible
by
all
our
Senses,
no
more
then
several
objects
are
by
one
sense.
I
believe
you,
replied
the
Empress;
but
if
you
can
give
no
account
of
the
Air,
said
she,
you
will
hardly
be
able
to
inform
me
how
Wind
is
made;
for
they
say,
that
Wind
is
nothing
but
motion
of
the
Air.
The
Bird-men
answer'd,
That
they
observed
Wind
to
be
more
dense
then
Air,
and
therefore
subject
to
the
sense
of
Touch;
but
what
properly
Wind
was,
and
the
manner
how
it
was
made,
they
could
not
exactly
tell;
some
said,
it
was
caused
by
the
Clouds
falling
on
each
other;
and
others,
that
it
was
produced
of
a
hot
and
dry
exhalation:
which
ascending,
was
driven
down
again
by
the
coldness
of
the
Air
that
is
in
the
middle
Region,
and
by
reason
of
its
leightness,
could
not
go
directly
to
the
bottom,
but
was
carried
by
the
Air
up
and
down:
Some
would
have
it
a
flowing
Water
of
the
Air;
and
others
again,
a
flowing
Air
moved
by
the
blaz
of
the
Stars.
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