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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[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.
[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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            that Hemiſphere muſt be involved in darkneſs,
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            which did before partake of Light. </s>
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            thoſe Parallels towards the North and South
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            Poles, will ſtill be divided by the ſame ine-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5254" xml:space="preserve">But thoſe bigger parts, which were
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            before enlightned, will now be darkned, & </s>
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            vice verſa. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5256" xml:space="preserve">As when the Earth was in N, the
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            and the Antartick KL altogether in the
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            the other MN, altogether obſcured. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5258" xml:space="preserve">Where-
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            as the Sun before was vertical to the Inhabi-
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            tants at the Tropick FG. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5259" xml:space="preserve">So now is he in the
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            ſame ſcituation to thoſe that live under the
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            other Tropick HI. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5260" xml:space="preserve">And whereas before the
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            Pole did incline 23 degrees 30 minutes to-
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            to 47 degrees, which is the diſtance of one
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            the Earth is in either of the Equinoctials ♈ ♎,
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5264" xml:space="preserve">and thereſore muſt divide
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            whence it will follow, that the Day and
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            Night muſt then be equal in all places of the
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