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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            to this purpoſe in theſe Words. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s482" xml:space="preserve">Ex illâ ali-
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            menta omnibus animalibus, omnibus ſatis, omnibus
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            ſtellis dividuntur, hinc proſertur quo fuſtineantur
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            tot Sidera tam exercitata, tam avida per diem,
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            noctemque, ut in opere, ita in paſtu. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s483" xml:space="preserve">Speaking
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            of the Earth, he ſays, from thence it is that
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            Nouriſhment is divided to all the Living
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            Creatures, the Plants and the Stars; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s484" xml:space="preserve">hence
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            were ſuſtain'd ſo many Conſtellations, ſo La-
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            borious, ſo Greedy, both Day and Night, as
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            well in their Feeding as Working. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s485" xml:space="preserve">Thus alſo
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            Lucan Sings,</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head35" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Necnon Oceano paſci phæbumque polumq;
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          Gredimus.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s486" xml:space="preserve">Unto theſe Ptolomy alſo, that Learn'd Egyp-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0042-01" xlink:href="note-0042-01a" xml:space="preserve">@ Apoſtel.</note>
            tian, ſeem'd to agree, when he affirms that
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            the Body of the Moon is moiſter, and cooler
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            than any of the other Planets, by reaſon of
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            the Earthly Vapours that are exhaled unto it.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s487" xml:space="preserve">You ſee theſe Ancients thought the Heavens
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            to be ſo far from this imagined Incorruptibili-
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            ty, that rather like the weakeſt Bodies they
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            ſtood in need of ſome continual Nouriſhment,
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            without which they could not ſubſiſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s489" xml:space="preserve">But Ariſtotle and his Followers were ſo far
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0042-02" xlink:href="note-0042-02a" xml:space="preserve">De Cælo.
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              l. 1. c. 3.</note>
            from this, that they thought thoſe Glorious
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            Bodies could not contain within them any ſuch
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            Principles as might make them lyable to the
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            leaſt Change or Corruption; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s490" xml:space="preserve">and their Chief
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            Reaſon was, becauſe we could not in ſo long
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            a ſpace diſcern any alteration amongſt them;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s491" xml:space="preserve">But to this I anſwer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s493" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s494" xml:space="preserve">Suppoſing we could not, yet would it
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            not hence follow that there were none, as </s>
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