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

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
151 139
152 140
153 141
154 142
155 143
156 144
157 145
158 146
159 147
160 148
161 149
162 150
163 151
164 152
165 153
166 154
167 155
168 156
169 157
170 158
171 159
172 160
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
< >
page |< < (162) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div315" type="section" level="1" n="64">
          <pb o="162" file="0342" n="342" rhead="That the Earth may be a Planet."/>
        </div>
        <div xml:id="echoid-div329" type="section" level="1" n="65">
          <head xml:id="echoid-head88" xml:space="preserve">PROP. X.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head89" style="it" xml:space="preserve">That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to
            <lb/>
          common appearances.</head>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5199" xml:space="preserve">
              <emph style="bf">I</emph>
            T hath been already proved, that the Earth
              <lb/>
            is capable of ſuch a ſcituation and moti-
              <lb/>
            on, as this Opinion ſuppoſes it to have. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5200" xml:space="preserve">It
              <lb/>
            remains, that in the laſt place, we ſhew how
              <lb/>
            agreeable this would be unto thoſe ordinary
              <lb/>
            ſeaſons of Days, Months, Years, and all
              <lb/>
            other appearances in the Heavens.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5201" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5202" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5203" xml:space="preserve">As for the difference betwixt Days and
              <lb/>
            Nights: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5204" xml:space="preserve">’tis evident, That this may be cau-
              <lb/>
            ſed as well by the Revolution of the Earth,
              <lb/>
            as the Motion of the Sun; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5205" xml:space="preserve">ſince the Heavenly
              <lb/>
            Bodies muſt needs ſeem after the ſame man-
              <lb/>
            ner to Riſe and Set, whether or no they
              <lb/>
            themſelves by their own Motion do paſs by
              <lb/>
            our Horizon and Vertical Point; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5206" xml:space="preserve">or whether
              <lb/>
            our Horizon and Vertical Point, by the Revo-
              <lb/>
            lution of our Earth, do paſs by them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5207" xml:space="preserve">Ac-
              <lb/>
            cording to that of Ariſtotle, {οὐ}υιν
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0342-01" xlink:href="note-0342-01a" xml:space="preserve"> De Cælo,
                <lb/>
              lib, 2. c. 8.</note>
            {κι}ν{εἶ}ν τη;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5208" xml:space="preserve">ν ὅψιν το ὸρώμενον There will not
              <lb/>
            appear any difference, whether or no the
              <lb/>
            Eye be moved from the Object, or the Ob-
              <lb/>
            ject from the Eye. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5209" xml:space="preserve">And therefore I cannot
              <lb/>
            chuſe but wonder that a Man of any </s>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum