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Haec disputavimus non considerando obscurationem cometarum
per fumum illum maxime copiosum et crassum,
Quo caput circundatur,
Quasi per nubem obtuse semper lucens.

Nam quanto obscurius redditur corpus per hunc fumum,
Tanto propius ad solem accedat necesse est,
Ut copia lucis a se reflexae planetas aemuletur.

Inde verisimile fit cometas longe infra sphaeram saturni descendere,
Uti ex parallaxi probavimus.
Idem vero quam maxime confirmatur ex caudis.
Hae vel ex reflexione fumi sparsi per aethera vel ex luce capitis oriuntur.

Priore casu minuenda est distantia cometarum,
Ne fumus a capite semper ortus per spatia nimis ampla incredibili cum velocitate et expansione propagetur.

In posteriore referenda est lux omnis tam caudae quam capillitii ad nucleum capitis.

Igitur si concipiamus lucem hanc omnem congregari et intra disum nuclei coarctari, Nucleus ille jam certe, quoties caudam maximam et fulgentissimam emittit,
Jovem ipsum splendore suo multum superabit.

In treating these matters, we have not been considering the obscuring of comets by that very copious and thick smoke by which the head is surrounded, always gleaming dully as if through a cloud. For the darker the body is rendered by this smoke, the closer it must approach to the sun for the amount of light reflected from it to rival that of the planets. This makes it likely that the comets descend far below the sphere of Saturn, as we have proved from their parallax.

But this same result is, to the highest degree, confirmed from their tails. These arise either from reflection by the smoke scattered through the aether or from the light of the head. In the first case the distance of the comets must be diminished, since otherwise the smoke always arising from the head would be propagated through spaces far too great, with such a velocity and expansion as to be unbelievable. In the second case, all the light of both the tail and the coma must be ascribed to the nucleus of the head. Therefore, if we suppose all this light is united and condensed within the disc of the nucleus, then certainly that nucleus, whenever it emts a very large and very bright tail, will far surpass in its brilliance even to Jupiter itself.

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from De Mundi Systemate .​.​. Sir Isaac Newton (2021), released April 12, 2021

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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