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

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
191 11
192 12
193 13
194 14
195 15
196 16
197 17
198 18
199 19
200 20
201 21
202 22
203 23
204 24
205 25
206 26
207 27
208 28
209 29
210 30
211 31
212 32
213 33
214 34
215 35
216 36
217 37
218 38
219 39
220 40
< >
page |< < (39) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div69" type="section" level="1" n="32">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s618" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="39" file="0051" n="51" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
            agreed on by the General Conſent of the moſt,
              <lb/>
            and the beſt Philoſophers.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s619" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s620" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s621" xml:space="preserve">It is Solid, in Opoſition to Fluid, as is the
              <lb/>
            Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s622" xml:space="preserve">for how otherwiſe could it beat back
              <lb/>
            the Light which it receives from the Sun?</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s623" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s624" xml:space="preserve">But here it may be Queſtioned, whether
              <lb/>
            or no the Moon beſtow her light upon us, by
              <lb/>
            the Reflection of the Sun-beams from the Su-
              <lb/>
            perficies of her Body, or elſe by her own illu-
              <lb/>
            mination? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s625" xml:space="preserve">Some there are who affirm this
              <lb/>
              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-01" xlink:href="note-0051-01a" xml:space="preserve">a De Cælo
                <lb/>
              l. 2.com.49.
                <lb/>
              b Ante le-
                <lb/>
              ction.li. 20.
                <lb/>
              c. 4.
                <lb/>
              c De pbæ-
                <lb/>
              nom. Lunæ
                <lb/>
              c. II.</note>
            latter part. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s626" xml:space="preserve">So (a) Averroes, (b) Gælius Rho-
              <lb/>
            diginus, (c) Fulius Gæſar &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s627" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s628" xml:space="preserve">And their Rea-
              <lb/>
            ſon is, becauſe this Light is diſcern'd in many
              <lb/>
            Places, whereas thoſe Bodies which give
              <lb/>
            Light by Reflexion, can there only be percei-
              <lb/>
            ved where the Angel of Reflexion is Equal
              <lb/>
            to the Angel of Incidence, and this is only in
              <lb/>
            one place, as in a Looking Glaſs, thoſe Beams
              <lb/>
            which are reflected from it, cannot be percei-
              <lb/>
            ved in every place where you may ſee the
              <lb/>
            Glaſs, but only there where your Eye is pla-
              <lb/>
            ced on the ſame Line whereon the Beams are
              <lb/>
            Reſlected.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s629" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s630" xml:space="preserve">But to this I anſwer, That the Argument
              <lb/>
            will not hold of ſuch Bodies, whoſe Superfi-
              <lb/>
            cies, is full of Unequal parts and Giboſities
              <lb/>
            as the Moon is. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s631" xml:space="preserve">Wherefore ’tis as well the
              <lb/>
            more probable, as the more common Opini-
              <lb/>
            on, that her Light proceeds from both theſe
              <lb/>
            Cauſes, from Reflexion and Illumination;
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s632" xml:space="preserve">nor doth it herein differ from our Earth, ſince
              <lb/>
            that alſo hath ſome Light by Illumination: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s633" xml:space="preserve">
              <lb/>
            for how otherwiſe would the Parts about us
              <lb/>
            in a Sun-ſhine Day appear ſo Bright, when as
              <lb/>
            the Rays of Reflexion cannot Enter into our
              <lb/>
            Eye?</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s634" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum