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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24565That the Earth may be a Planet. nakedneſs of our Forefathers. That ex-
cuſe of Acoſta, may juſtly ſerve to 11De nat.
novi orbis,
lib.1.c.2.
gate the Miſtakes of theſe Ancient Divines:
Facilè condonandum eſt patribus, ſi cum cognoſ-
cendo colendòque Creatori toti vacarent, de
creaturâ minus aptè aliqua ex parte opinati
ſunt.
Thoſe good Men were ſo wholly bu-
ſied about the Knowledg and Worſhip of the
Creator, that they had not leiſure enough
for an exact ſearch into the Eſſence of the
Creatures.
However, theſe Examples that
have been already cited, may ſufficiently
manifeſt, how frequently others have been
deceived, in concluding the Points of Phi-
loſophy from the Expreſſions of Scrip-
ture.
And therefore, ’tis not certain, but
that in the preſent caſe alſo, it may be
inſufficient for ſuch a manner of argu-
ing.

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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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