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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4545" xml:space="preserve">If an equal force will caſt an heavy Bo-
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            dy but at an equal diſtance, whether or no
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            it move with, or againſt the motion of the
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            Ship; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4546" xml:space="preserve">then may we eaſily conceive, that an
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            Arrow, or B@llet, being ſhot with the ſame
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            violence, will paſs but the ſame ſpace on the
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            Earth, whether or no it be ſhot towards the
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            Eaſt or Weſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4548" xml:space="preserve">If a heavy Body, while the Ship does move,
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            will fall down in a ſtreight Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4549" xml:space="preserve">then it is
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            not the Revol@tion of our Earth that can
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            hinder a perpendicular deſcent.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4551" xml:space="preserve">If a Man, leaping up in a Ship, may a-
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            bide in the Air one ſecond ſcruple of an hour,
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            and yet this Ship, in its greateſt ſwiftneſs,
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            not withdraw it ſelf fifteen foot; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4552" xml:space="preserve">then will
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            not the Earth, in that ſpace, go from him
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            almoſt a quarter of a mile.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4554" xml:space="preserve">But againſt this, ’tis Objected, That the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0304-01" xlink:href="note-0304-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fromond.
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              Veſta.
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              tract. 2.
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              cap. 2.</note>
            Earth has the ſimilitude of an open Ship, and
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            not of any Room that is cloſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4555" xml:space="preserve">And tho it
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            be true, that when the Roof and the Walls
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            do all move together, the Air which is in-
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            cluded betwixt them, muſt be carried along
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            by the ſame motion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4556" xml:space="preserve">yet it is not ſo with
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            the Earth, becauſe that hath not any ſuch
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            Walls or Roof, wherein it may contain and
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            carry along with it the Medium. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4557" xml:space="preserve">And there-
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            fore Experience will rather argue againſt
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            this fuppoſed Revolution. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4558" xml:space="preserve">Thus ’tis ob-
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            ferved, that a Stone being let fall from the
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            Maſt of a Ship, that moves ſwiftly, will not
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            deſcend to the ſame point, as if the Ship
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            did ſtand ſtill. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4559" xml:space="preserve">From whence it will </s>
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