Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

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161149That the Moon may be a World. kows, Swallows, and ſuch like. To this pur-
poſe
Mendoca reckons up divers ſtrange 11Viridiar.
lib
. 4. prob.
24
.
lations.
As that of Epimendies, who is ſtory-
ed
to have ſlept 75 Years.
And another of a
Ruſtick
in Germany, who being accidentally
covered
with a Hay-Rick, ſlept there for all
Autumn
, and the Winter following, without
any
Nouriſhment.
----------Veſcitur aur â
55VirgilÆthereâ-------------
’T was an old Platonick Principle, that

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