Note 631 — SECOND PART. The Astronomy of Dante. (continued 4)
Reading edition
“Nor does it avail anything to say that that declination could not take place because of approaching nearer the earth through eccentricity; for if this elevating virtue were in the moon, since agents act the more powerfully the nearer they are, she would elevate there rather than here.” Qu. xx. 65-71.