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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134122That the Moon may be a World. us; they are the Words of Fienus (as they
are quoted by Fromondus in the above cited
place) poſſunt maxime permutationes in cælo fieri
etiamſi a nobis non conſpiciantur;
hoc viſus noſtri
debilitas &
immenſa cœli diſtantia faciunt. And
unto him aſſents Fromondus himſelf, when a
a little after he ſays, Si in ſphæris planetarum
degeremus, plurima forſan cœleſtium nebularum
vellera toto æthere paſſim diſperſa videremus,
quorum ſpecies jam eveneſcit nimiâ ſpatii interca
pedine.
‘If we did live in the Spheres of the
‘ Planets, we might there perhaps diſcern ma-
‘ ny great Clouds diſperſed through the whole
‘ Heavens, which are not viſible by reaſon of
‘ this great diſtance.
2. Mæſlin and Keplar affirm, that they have
ſeen ſome of theſe Alterations.
The Words
of Mæſlin are theſe (as I find them cited) In
eclipſi lunari veſpere Dominicæ Palmarum Anni
11Differt. 2.
cum nunc.
Galil.
item Somn.
Aſtron.notd
ultima.
1605.
in corpore lunæ verſus Boream, nigricans
quædam macula conſpecta fuit, obſcurior cætero
toto corpore, quod candentis ferri figuram repre-
ſentabat;
dixiſſes nubila in multam regionem ex-
tenſa pluviis &
tempeſiuoſis imbribus gravida,
cujuſmodi ab excelſorum montium jugis in humi-
liora convallium loca videre non raro contingit.
‘ In that Lunary Eclipſe which happened in the
‘ Even of Palm-Sunday, in the year 1605.
there
‘ was a certain blackiſh ſpot diſcern’d in the
‘ Northerly part of the Moon, being darker
‘ than any other place of her Body, and repre-
‘ ſenting the colour of red hot Iron;
You
‘ might conjecture that it was ſome dilated
‘ Cloud, being pregnant with Showres;
for
‘ thus do ſuch lower Clouds appear from the
‘ tops of high Moun tains.

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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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