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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148136That the Moon may be a World. ever look for any Evident or more Probable
Diſcoveries in this kind. unleſs there be ſome
hopes of Inventing means for our Conveyance
thither. The Poſſibility of which, ſhall be the
Subject of our Enquiry in this laſt Propoſition.

And, if we do but Conſider by what Steps
and Leaſure, all Arts do uſually riſe to their
Growth, we ſhall have no cauſe to Doubt why
this alſo may not hereafter be found out
amongſt other Secrets. It hath Conſtantly yet
been the Method of Providence, not preſent-
ly to ſhew us all, but to Lead us on by De-
grees, from the Knowledg of one thing to an-
other.

’T was a great While, ere the Planets were
Diſtinguſhed from the fixed Stars, and ſome
time after that, ere the Morning and Evening
Star were Found to be the ſame. And in greater
ſpace (I doubt not) but this alſo, and other as
Excellent Myſteries will be Diſcovered. Time,
who hath always been the Father of new
Truths, and hath revealed unto us many things,
which our Anceſtors were Ignorant of, will
alſo Manifeſt to our Poſterity, that which we
now deſire, but cannot know. Veniet tempus
(ſaith Seneca) quo iſt a quæ nunc latent, in lucem
11Nat. Qu.
l.7.cap. 25. dies extrahet, & longioris ævi diligentia. Time
will come, when the Indeavours of after Ages,
ſhall bring ſuch things to Light as now lie hid
in Obſcurity. Arts are not yet come to their
Solſtice. But the Induſtry of Future Times,
Aſſiſted with the Labours of their Fore-Fa-
thers, may reach that Height which we could
not Attain to.

Veniet tempus quo poſteri noſlri 
nos tam aperta neſciſſe mirentur. 

As we

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1. Page 90, Sentence 4:Over the Seas he might have Ships, and over //the Land Horſes, but he muſt have Wings be-//fore he could get up thither.

2. Page 141, Sentence 1:The Prieſt of Saturn relating to Plutarch //(as he feigns it) the nature of theſe Selenites, //told him, they were of divers diſpoſitions, //ſome deſiring to live in the lower parts of the //Moon, where they might look downwards //upon us, while others were more ſurely moun-//ted aloft, all of them ſhining like the Rays of //the Sun, and as being Victorious, are Crow-//ned with Garlands made with the Wings of //Euſtathia or Gonſtancie.

3. Page 156, Sentence 15:whereas being /// high, they can keep themſelves up, and ſoar a-//bout by the meer extenſion of their Wings. //

4. Page 171, Sentence 2:’Tis not perhaps impoſſible, that a man //may be able to Fly, by the application of Wings to his //own body;

5. Page 171, Sentence 6:If there be ſuch a great Ruck in Madagaſcar, as 11Mr. Bur. //ton. cus Polus the Venetian mentions, the Feathers in whoſe //Wings are twelve Foot long, which can ſoop up a Horle //22Melanch. //pa. 2. ſect. 2 //mem. 3. and his Rider, or an Elephant, as our Kites do a Mouſe; //

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