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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5139That the Moon may be a World. agreed on by the General Conſent of the moſt,
and the beſt Philoſophers.

It is Solid, in Opoſition to Fluid, as is the
Air; for how otherwiſe could it beat back
the Light which it receives from the Sun?

But here it may be Queſtioned, whether
or no the Moon beſtow her light upon us, by
the Reflection of the Sun-beams from the Su-
perficies of her Body, or elſe by her own illu-
mination? Some there are who affirm this
11a De Cælo
l. 2.com.49.
b Ante le-
ction.li. 20.
c. 4.
c De pbæ-
nom. Lunæ
c. II. latter part. So (a) Averroes, (b) Gælius Rho-
diginus, (c) Fulius Gæſar & c. And their Rea-
ſon is, becauſe this Light is diſcern'd in many
Places, whereas thoſe Bodies which give
Light by Reflexion, can there only be percei-
ved where the Angel of Reflexion is Equal
to the Angel of Incidence, and this is only in
one place, as in a Looking Glaſs, thoſe Beams
which are reflected from it, cannot be percei-
ved in every place where you may ſee the
Glaſs, but only there where your Eye is pla-
ced on the ſame Line whereon the Beams are
Reſlected.

But to this I anſwer, That the Argument
will not hold of ſuch Bodies, whoſe Superfi-
cies, is full of Unequal parts and Giboſities
as the Moon is. Wherefore ’tis as well the
more probable, as the more common Opini-
on, that her Light proceeds from both theſe
Cauſes, from Reflexion and Illumination;
nor doth it herein differ from our Earth, ſince
that alſo hath ſome Light by Illumination:
for how otherwiſe would the Parts about us
in a Sun-ſhine Day appear ſo Bright, when as
the Rays of Reflexion cannot Enter into our
Eye?

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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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