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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283103That the Eartb may be a Planet. more excellent, which does limit any thing,
than that which is bounded by it. For this
reaſon is it, that Matter is amongſt thoſe
things which are terminated, and Form that
which does circumſcribe.

But againſt this anſwer of Ariſtotle, it is
again replied:

1. Though it be true, that in living Crea-
11Keplar.
Aſtr. Co-
pern.lib.2.
par.2. tures, the beſt and chiefeſt part is not placed
always juſt in the midſt; yet this may be,
becauſe they are not of an orbicular Form,
as the World is.

2. Though that which bounds another
thing, be more excellent than that which is
terminated by it, yet this does not prove
the Centre to be the worſt place, becauſe
that is one of the Terms or Limits of a
round Body, as well as the Circumfe-
rence.

There are likewiſe other Arguments to
22Maſſin.
præ. ad
Narrat.
Rbettci. this purpoſe, much inſiſted on by eminent
Aſtronomers; taken from that Harmoni-
cal Proportion which there may be be-
33Keplar.
myſterium
Coſmogra-
Phicum. twixt the ſeveral diſtances and bigneſs of
the Orbs, if we ſuppoſe the Sun to be in
the Centre.

For according to this (ſay they) we may
conceive an excellent harmony, both in the
number and the diſtance of the Planets;
(and if God made all other things, numero
& menſurâ, much more then thoſe greater
Works, the Heavens) for then the five Ma-
44Lib. 13.
prop. 14,
15, &c. thematical Bodies, ſo much ſpoken of by
Euclid, will bear in them a

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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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