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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            vaſt Houſes as were requiſite for their Bodies,
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            they are fain to dig great and round hollows in
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            the Earth, where they may both procure water
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-01" xlink:href="note-0095-01a" xml:space="preserve">Kep. ap-
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              pend. Sele-
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              nogra.</note>
            for their Thirſt, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1227" xml:space="preserve">turning about with the ſhade,
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            may avoid thoſe great Heats which other wiſe
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            they would be liable unto, or if you will give
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            Gæſar la Galla leave to gueſs in the ſame man-
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            ner, he would rather think that thoſe Thirſty
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            Nations caſt up ſo many, and ſo great heaps of
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            Earth in digging of their Wine Cellars; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1228" xml:space="preserve">but
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0095-02" xlink:href="note-0095-02a" xml:space="preserve">Nuncius
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              Sydereus.</note>
            this only by the way.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1230" xml:space="preserve">I ſhall next produce Eye-witneſs of Galelæus,
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            on which I moſt of all depend for the proof of
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            this Propoſition, when he beheld the new Moon
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            through his perſpective, it appeared to him un-
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            der a Rugged and Spotted Figure, ſeeming to
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            have the darker and enlightned parts divided
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            by a Tortuous Line, having ſome Parcels of
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            Light at a good diſtance from the other; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1231" xml:space="preserve">and
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            this difference is ſo remarkable, that you may
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            eaſily perceive it through one of thoſe ordina-
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            ry Perſpectives, which are commonly ſold a-
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            mongſt us; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1232" xml:space="preserve">but for your better apprehending
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            of what I deliver, I will ſet down the Figure
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            as I find it in Galilæus.</s>
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