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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[Item 1.]
[2.] Ex Libris James S. Dearden Rampside
[3.] A DISCOVERY OF A New , OR,
[4.] In Two Parts.
[5.] The Fifth Edition Corrected and Amended. LONDON,
[6.] The Epiſtle to the READER.
[7.] The Propoſitions that are proved in this Diſcourſe. PROPOSITION I.
[8.] PROP. II.
[9.] PROP. III.
[10.] PROP. IV.
[11.] PROP. V.
[12.] PROP. VI.
[13.] PROP. VII.
[14.] PROP. VIII.
[15.] PROP. IX.
[16.] PROP. X.
[17.] PROP. XI.
[18.] PROP. XII.
[19.] PROP. XIII.
[20.] PROP. XIV.
[21.] The Firſt Book. That the MOON May be a WORLD. The Firſt Propoſition, by way of Preface.
[22.] Sed vanus ſtolidis hæc omnia finxerit Error.
[23.] Solis lunæq; labores.
[24.] Cum fruſtra reſonant æra auxiliaria Lunæ.
[25.] Una laboranti poterit ſuccerrere Lunæ.
[26.] Gantus & è cælo poſſunt deducere Lunam.
[27.] Cantus & ſi curru lunam deducere tentant, Et facerent, ſi non æra repulſa ſonant.
[28.] PROP. II. That a Plurality of Worlds doth not contradict any Principle of Reaſon or Faith.
[29.] Æſtuas infelix auguſto limite mundi.
[30.] PROP. III. That the Heavens do not conſiſt of any ſuch pure Matter, which can priviledge them from the like Change and Corruption, as theſe Inferiour, Bodies are liable unto.
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            But enough of this. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1685" xml:space="preserve">You may commonly ſee
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-01" xlink:href="note-0130-01a" xml:space="preserve">Clavius in
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              ſphæram.
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              cap. 1.</note>
            it confuted by many other Arguments. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1686" xml:space="preserve">Others
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            there are, who affirm theſe to be ſome new
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            created Stars, produc’d by an extraordinary
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            ſupernatural Power. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1687" xml:space="preserve">I anſwer, true indeed,
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            ’tis poſſible they might be ſo, but however,
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            ’tis not likely they were ſo, ſince ſuch appea-
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            rances may be ſalved ſome other way; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1688" xml:space="preserve">where-
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            fore to fly unto a miracle for ſuch things, were
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            a great Injury to Nature, and to derogate
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            from her skill; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1689" xml:space="preserve">an Indignity miſ-becoming
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            a Man who profeſſes himſelf to be a Philoſo-
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            pher. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1690" xml:space="preserve">Miraculum (ſays one) eſt ignorantiæ Aſy-
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            lum, a Miracle often ſerves for the Recepta-
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            cle of a lazy Ignorance; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1691" xml:space="preserve">which any induſtrious
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            Spirit would be aſham’d of, it being but an
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            idle way to ſhift off the Labour of any further
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            ſearch. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1692" xml:space="preserve">But here’s the miſery of it, we firſt
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            tye our ſelves unto Ariſtotle’s Principles, and
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            then conclude that nothing can contradict ’em,
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            but a Miracle; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1693" xml:space="preserve">whereas ’twould be much bet-
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            ter for the Commonwealth of Learning, if
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            we would ground our Principles rather upon
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            the frequent experiences of our own, than the
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            bare Authority of others.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1695" xml:space="preserve">Some there are who think, that theſe Co-
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            mets are nothing elſe, but Exhalations from
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            our Earth, carryed up into the higher parts of
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            the Heaven. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1696" xml:space="preserve">So Peno, Rothmannus & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1697" xml:space="preserve">Galilæus.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1698" xml:space="preserve">But this is not poſſible, ſince by Computation
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-02" xlink:href="note-0130-02a" xml:space="preserve">Tycho Pro-
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              gym. l. 1.
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              c. 9.</note>
            ’tis found, that one of them is above 300 times
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            bigger than the wholeGlobe of Land & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1699" xml:space="preserve">water.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1700" xml:space="preserve">Others therefore have thought that they did
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            proceed from the Body of the Sun, and that
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            Planet only is Gometarum officina, unde </s>
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