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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            of our Philoſophical thirſt, does deſerve ra-
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            ther to be ſtiled by the name of Modeſty,
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            than Boldneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2695" xml:space="preserve">And in another place, he
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-01" xlink:href="note-0195-01a" xml:space="preserve">Met. lib.
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              12. cap. 8.</note>
            refers the Reader to the different Opinions
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            of Aſtronomers, adviſing him to examin their
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            ſeveral tenents, as well Eudoxus as Calippus;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2696" xml:space="preserve">and to entertain that (not which is moſt an-
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            tient, but) which is moſt exact and agree-
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            able to Reaſon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2697" xml:space="preserve">And as for Ptolomy, ’tis his
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0195-02" xlink:href="note-0195-02a" xml:space="preserve">Alm. lib.
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              13. cap. 2.</note>
            counſel, that we ſhould endeavour to frame
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            ſuch ſuppoſitions of the Heavens, as might
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            be more ſimple, being void of all ſuperflui-
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            ties: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2698" xml:space="preserve">And he confeſſes, that his Hypotheſis had
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            many implications in it, together with ſun-
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            dry intricate and unlikely turnings; </s>
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            therefore in the ſame place, he ſeems to ad-
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            moniſh us, that we ſhould not be too confi-
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            dent the Heavens were really in the ſame
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            Form, wherein Aſtronomers did ſuppoſe
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            them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2700" xml:space="preserve">So that ’tis likely, ’twas his chief in-
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            tent to propoſe unto us ſuch a frame of the
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            Cœleſtial Bodies, from which we might, in
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            ſome meaſure, conceive of their different ap-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2701" xml:space="preserve">and according to which, we
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            pound unto us, the true natural Cauſes of
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            theſe ſeveral Motions, and Appearances:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2703" xml:space="preserve">It was the intent of the one, to ſettle the
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            Imagination; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2704" xml:space="preserve">and of the other, to ſatisfie the
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            doubt of his aſſent unto this Opinion, if he
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