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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            is in ſome part of the World ſuch a place
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            where Men might be plentifully nouriſh’d by
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            the Air they breath; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2202" xml:space="preserve">which cannot more pro-
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            perly be aſſign’d to any one particular, than to
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            the Æthereal Air above this.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2204" xml:space="preserve">I know ’tis the common Opinion, that no
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            Element can prove Aliment, becauſe ’tis not
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-01" xlink:href="note-0162-01a" xml:space="preserve">Arriſt. de
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              Senſ. cap. 5.</note>
            proportionate to the Bodies of living Crea-
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            tures which are compounded. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2205" xml:space="preserve">But,</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2206" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2207" xml:space="preserve">This Æthereal Air is not an Element’; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2208" xml:space="preserve">and
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            tho’ it be purer, yet ’tis perhaps of a greater
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            agreabieneſs to man’s Nature and Conſtitution.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2210" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2211" xml:space="preserve">If we conſult experience and the credible
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            Relations of others, we ſhall find it probable
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            enough that many things receive Nouriſhment
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            from meer Elements.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2213" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, for the Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2214" xml:space="preserve"> Ariſtotle and
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-02" xlink:href="note-0162-02a" xml:space="preserve">The Earth</note>
            thoſe two great Naturaliſts, tell us of ſome
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              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-03" xlink:href="note-0162-03a" xml:space="preserve">Hiſt.
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              Anima.
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              lib. 8. cap. 5.</note>
            Creatures that are fed only with this. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2215" xml:space="preserve">And it
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            was the Curſe of the Serpent, Gen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2216" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2217" xml:space="preserve">14. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2218" xml:space="preserve">Up-
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              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-04" xlink:href="note-0162-04a" xml:space="preserve">Hiſt. l. 10.
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              cap. 72.</note>
            on thy body ſhalt thou go, and duſt ſhalt thou eat all
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            the days of thy life.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2220" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe for the Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2221" xml:space="preserve"> Albertu Mag- nus ſpeaks of a man who lived ſeven Weeks
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-05" xlink:href="note-0162-05a" xml:space="preserve">The water</note>
            together by the meer Drinking of water. </s>
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              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-06" xlink:href="note-0162-06a" xml:space="preserve">De Anim.
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              lib. 7.</note>
            Rondoletius (to whoſe diligence theſe later
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            times are much beholden for ſundry Obſerva-
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              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0162-07" xlink:href="note-0162-07a" xml:space="preserve">De Piſc.
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              l. 1. cap. 12.</note>
            tions concerning the Nature of Aquatils) af-
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            firms, that his Wife did keep a Fiſh in a Glaſs
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            of water, without any other Food, for three
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            Years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2223" xml:space="preserve">in which ſpace it was conſtantly aug-
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            mented, till at firſt it could not come out of
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            the place at which it was put in, and at length
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            was too big for the Glaſs it ſelf, though that
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            were of a large capacity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2224" xml:space="preserve">Gardan tells us of </s>
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