As the other planets, so also our earth, is not only enlightened, warned, cherished, and made fruitful by the power, virtue, and influence of the sun, but it hath, moreover, its proper, magnetical, planetary force awakened, fermented, excited, and agitated, which it sends back with the reflected Light of that luminary.

The Philosophical Works of the Honorable Robert Boyle (Volume 3 ), (2nd edition), A New Use of Astronomy (pp. 35-36)