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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5302" xml:space="preserve">Suppoſe the Sun to be ſcituated at A. </s>
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            becauſe Mercury is found by experience to
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            be always very near the Sun, ſo that he does
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            for the moſt part lie hid under his Rays. </s>
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            alſo becauſe this Planet hath a more lively
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            vigorous Light than any of the other; </s>
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            fore we may infer, that his Orb is placed
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            next unto the Sun, as that at B.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5307" xml:space="preserve">As for Venus, ’tis obſerved, That She
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            does always keep at a ſet diſtance from the
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            Sun, never going from him above forty de-
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            grees, or thereabouts; </s>
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            pears, through the Perſpective, to be forty
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5309" xml:space="preserve">that when ſhe ſeems biggeſt and neareſt un-
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            round. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5310" xml:space="preserve">Therefore doth this Planet alſo
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            move in a Circle that incompaſſeth the Sun: </s>
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            Which Circle does not contain the Earth
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            within it, becauſe then, Venus would ſome-
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            times be in oppoſition to the Sun; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5312" xml:space="preserve">whereas,
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            ’tis generally granted, that ſhe never yet
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5314" xml:space="preserve">Nor is this Circle below the Sun, (as Pto-
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            both its Conjunctions, would appear
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5316" xml:space="preserve">Nor is it above the Sun, becauſe then ſhe
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