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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[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.
[31.] Necnon Oceano paſci phæbumque polumq; Gredimus.
[32.] PROP. IV. That the Moon is a Solid, Compacted, Opacous Body.
[33.] PROP. V. That the Moon hath not any Light of her own.
[34.] PROP. VI. That there is a World in the Moon, bath been the direct Opinion of many Ancient, with ſome Modern Mathematicians, and may probably de deduc’d from the Tenents of others.
[35.] PROP. VII. That thoſe Spots and brighter parts, which by our ſight may be diſtinguiſhed in the Moon, do ſhew the difference betwixt the Sea and Land, in that other World.
[36.] PROP. VIII. The Spots repeſent the Sea, and the brighter parts the Land.
[37.] PROP. IX. That there are high Mountains, deep Vallies, and ſpacious Plains in the Body of the Moon.
[38.] PROP. X. That there is an Atmo-ſphæra, or an Orb of groſs, Vaporous Air, immediately encompaſſing the body of the Moon.
[39.] PROP. XI. That as their World is our Moon, ſo our World is their Moon.
[40.] Provehimur portu, terræque urbeſque recedunt.
[41.] PROP. XII.
[42.] PROP. XIII.
[43.] PROP. XIV.
[44.] FINIS.
[45.] A DISCOURSE Concerning a Rem Planet. Tending to prove That ’tis probable our EARTH is one of the PLANETS. The Second Book. By John Wilkins, late L. Biſhop of Cheſter.
[46.] LONDON: Printed by J. D. for John Gellibrand, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. M.DC.LXXXIV.
[47.] To the Reader.
[48.] PROP. I.
[49.] PROP. II.
[50.] PROP. III.
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            I have already proved, and as for the laſt it is
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            confidently affirm’d by Gælius, Quod ſi in diſ-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-01" xlink:href="note-0114-01a" xml:space="preserve">Ant. Lect.
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              l. 20. c. 5.</note>
            quiſitionem evocet quis, an lunari ſyderi lucem
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            fœnerent planetæ item alii, aſſeveranter aſtruen-
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            dum non fænerare. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1492" xml:space="preserve">‘If any ſhould ask whether
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            ‘the other Planets lend any Light to the
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            ‘Moon? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1493" xml:space="preserve">I anſwer, they do not. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1494" xml:space="preserve">True indeed,
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            the Noble Tycho diſcuſſing the reaſon of this
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0114-02" xlink:href="note-0114-02a" xml:space="preserve">Progym. 1.</note>
            Light, attributes it to the Planet Venus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1495" xml:space="preserve">and I
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            grant that this may convey ſome Light to the
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            Moon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1496" xml:space="preserve">but that is not the cauſe of this where-
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            of we now diſcourſe, is of it ſelf ſufficiently
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            plain, becauſe Venus is ſometimes over the
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            Moon, when as ſhe cannot convey any Light
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            to that part which is turned from her.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1498" xml:space="preserve">It doth not proceed from the fixed Stars;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1499" xml:space="preserve">for then it would retain the ſame Light in E-
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            clipſes, whereas the Light at ſuch times is
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            more ruddy and dull. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1500" xml:space="preserve">Then alſo the Light of
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            the Moon would not be greater or leſſer, ac-
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            cording to its diſtance from the edge of the
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            Earths ſhadow, ſince it did at all times equally
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            participate this Light of the Stars.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1502" xml:space="preserve">In brief, this is neither proper to the Moon,
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            nor does it proceed from any Penetration of
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            the Sun’s Rays, or the ſhining of Venus, or the
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            other Planets, or the fixed Stars. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1503" xml:space="preserve">Now be-
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            cauſe there is no other Body in the whole Uni-
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            verſe, ſave the Earth, it remains that this Light
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            muſt neceſlarily be cauſed by that, which with
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            a Juſt Gratitude re-pays the Moon ſuch Illu-
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            mination as it receives from her.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1505" xml:space="preserve">And as Loving Friends, equally participate
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            of the ſame Joy and Grief, ſo do the ſe mutual-
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            ly partake of the ſame Light from the Sun, </s>
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