I normally leave the magnification crowd to their own devices but once the make-it-up-as-you-go-along theorists show up it strays into interpretative territory.

The childish never made the transformation into adults in matters of astronomy yet to all the world they appear like people of great learning, even in this matter.

"Cor. 2. And since these stars are liable to no sensible parallax from
the annual motion of the earth, they can have no force, because of
their immense distance, to produce any sensible effect in our system.
Not to mention that the fixed stars, every where promiscuously
dispersed in the heavens, by their contrary actions destroy their
mutual actions, by Prop. LXX, Book I."

That is pure rubbish conjured up in much the same way as Brown puts down in a post whatever is in his head . Forget parallax as that is a dog of a perspective and hinders the use of the background stars and is an obstruction to interpretative astronomy and especially proof of the Earth's orbital motion.