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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[51.] PROP. IV.
[52.] PROP. V.
[53.] PROP. VI.
[54.] PROP. VII. PROP. VIII. PROP. IX. PROP. X.
[55.] That the EARTH May be a PLANET. PROP. I.
[56.] PROP. II.
[57.] PROP. III.
[58.] PROP. IV.
[59.] PROP. V. That the Scripture, in its proper conſtru-ction, does not any where affirm the Immobility of the Earth.
[60.] PROP. VI. That there is not any Argument from the Words of Scripture, Principles of Na-ture, or Obſervations in Aſtronomy, which can ſuſſiciently evidence the Earth to be in the Gentre of the Uni-verſe.
[61.] PROP. VII. Tis probable that the Sun is in the Gentre of the World.
[62.] PROP. VIII. That there is not any ſufficient reaſon to prove the Earth incapable of thoſe mo-tions which Copernicus aſcribes un-to it.
[63.] Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.
[64.] PROP. IX. That it is more probable the Earth does move, than the Sun or Heavens.
[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.
[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit
[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.
[68.] FINIS.
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134122That the Moon may be a World. us; they are the Words of Fienus (as they
are quoted by Fromondus in the above cited
place) poſſunt maxime permutationes in cælo fieri
etiamſi a nobis non conſpiciantur;
hoc viſus noſtri
debilitas &
immenſa cœli diſtantia faciunt. And
unto him aſſents Fromondus himſelf, when a
a little after he ſays, Si in ſphæris planetarum
degeremus, plurima forſan cœleſtium nebularum
vellera toto æthere paſſim diſperſa videremus,
quorum ſpecies jam eveneſcit nimiâ ſpatii interca
pedine.
‘If we did live in the Spheres of the
‘ Planets, we might there perhaps diſcern ma-
‘ ny great Clouds diſperſed through the whole
‘ Heavens, which are not viſible by reaſon of
‘ this great diſtance.
2. Mæſlin and Keplar affirm, that they have
ſeen ſome of theſe Alterations.
The Words
of Mæſlin are theſe (as I find them cited) In
eclipſi lunari veſpere Dominicæ Palmarum Anni
11Differt. 2.
cum nunc.
Galil.
item Somn.
Aſtron.notd
ultima.
1605.
in corpore lunæ verſus Boream, nigricans
quædam macula conſpecta fuit, obſcurior cætero
toto corpore, quod candentis ferri figuram repre-
ſentabat;
dixiſſes nubila in multam regionem ex-
tenſa pluviis &
tempeſiuoſis imbribus gravida,
cujuſmodi ab excelſorum montium jugis in humi-
liora convallium loca videre non raro contingit.
‘ In that Lunary Eclipſe which happened in the
‘ Even of Palm-Sunday, in the year 1605.
there
‘ was a certain blackiſh ſpot diſcern’d in the
‘ Northerly part of the Moon, being darker
‘ than any other place of her Body, and repre-
‘ ſenting the colour of red hot Iron;
You
‘ might conjecture that it was ſome dilated
‘ Cloud, being pregnant with Showres;
for
‘ thus do ſuch lower Clouds appear from the
‘ tops of high Moun tains.

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