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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            portion which ſhe obſerves in leſſer Matters.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4904" xml:space="preserve">If this Globe of Earth only were appointed
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            to move every day round the Orb of the
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            fixed Stars, though it be but a little Body,
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            and ſo more capable of a ſwift motion; </s>
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            yet that ſwiftneſs would be ſo extreamly
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            diſproportionable unto it, that we could
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            not with reaſon conceive it poſſible, accord-
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            ing to the uſual courſe of Nature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4906" xml:space="preserve">But now,
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            that the Heavens themſelves, of ſuch ſtrange
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            bigneſs, with ſo many Stars, which do ſo
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            far exceed the Magnitude of our Earth,
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            ſhould be able to turn about with the ſame
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            celerity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4907" xml:space="preserve">Oh! ’tis altogether beyond the
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            fancy of a Poet, or a Madman.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4909" xml:space="preserve">For anſwer unto this Argument, our Ad-
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            verſaries tell us, that there is not in the
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            Heavens any repugnancy to ſo ſwift a Mo-
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            tion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4910" xml:space="preserve">and that whether we conſider the na-
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            ture of thoſe Bodies; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4911" xml:space="preserve">or, ſecondly, the
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            ſwiftneſs of this Motion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4913" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4914" xml:space="preserve">For the Nature of thoſe
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            \\ Bodies, either their} Qualities.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4915" xml:space="preserve">\\ Quantity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4917" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4918" xml:space="preserve">There is not in them the Qualities of
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            lightneſs or heavineſs, or any the leaſt con-
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            trariety that may make them reluctant to
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            one another.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4920" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4921" xml:space="preserve">Their Magnitude will help them in
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0325-01" xlink:href="note-0325-01a" xml:space="preserve">Roff.lit. ii
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              ſect. 1. c.1.</note>
            their ſwiftneſs : </s>
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            is, the quicker will it be in its motion, and
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            that not only when it is moved by an inward
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            Principle, as a Millſtone will deſcend </s>
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