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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[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.
[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.
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135123That the Moon may be a World.
Unto this I may add another Teſtimony of
Bapt
.
Giſatus, as he is quoted by Nicrembergi-
us
, grounded upon an Obſervation taken 23
Years
after this of Mæſlin, and Writ to this
Euſeb
.
Nieremberg. in a Letter by that diligent
and
judicious Aſtronomer.
The Words of it
run
thus;
Et quidem in eclipſi nuper a ſolari quæ
11Hiſt. Nat.
l
. 2. c. II.
fuit ipſo de natali Ghriſti, obſervavi clari in luna
ſoli
ſuppoſita, quidpiam quod valde probat id ipſum
quod
Gometæ quoque &
maculæ ſolares urgent, nem-
pe
cælum non eſſe á tenuitate &
variationibus ae-
ris
exemptum;
nam circalunam adverti eſſe ſphæ-
ram
ſeu orbem quendam vaporoſum, non ſecus at-
que
circum terram, adeoque ſicut ex terra in ali-
quam
uſque ſphæram vapores &
exhalationes expi-
rant
, ita quoque ex luna.
‘In that late Solary
Eclipſe which happened on Chriſtmas Day,
when the Moon was juſt under the Sun, I
plainly diſcern’d that in her, which may clear-
ly confirm what the Comets and Suns Spots
do ſeem to prove, viz.
that the Heavens are
not ſolid, nor freed from thoſe Changes which
our Air is liable unto;
for, about the Moon
I perceiv’d ſuch an Orb, a vaporous Air, as
that is which doth encompaſs our Earth;
and
as Vapours and Exhalations are raiſed from
our Earth into this Air, ſo are they alſo from
the Moon.

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