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
131 119
132 120
133 121
134 122
135 123
136 124
137 126
138 127
139 126
140 128
141 129
142 131
143 130
144 132
145 133
146 134
147 135
148 136
149 137
150 138
151 139
152 140
153 141
154 142
155 143
156 144
157 145
158 146
159 147
160 148
< >
page |< < (75) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div107" type="section" level="1" n="36">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1121" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="75" file="0087" n="87" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
            ny of our Prodigies come to paſs, and the
              <lb/>
            People are willing to believe any thing, which
              <lb/>
            they may relate to others as a very ſtrange and
              <lb/>
            wonderful Event. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1122" xml:space="preserve">I doubt not but the Trojan
              <lb/>
            Palladium, the Roman Minerva, and our La-
              <lb/>
            dies Church at Loretto, with many ſacred Re-
              <lb/>
            liques preſerv'd by the Papiſts might drop
              <lb/>
            from the Moon as well as any of theſe.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1123" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1124" xml:space="preserve">But it may be again Objected, ſuppoſe there
              <lb/>
            were a Bullet ſhot up in that World, would
              <lb/>
            not the Moon run away from it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1125" xml:space="preserve">before it
              <lb/>
            could fall down, ſince the Motion of her Bo-
              <lb/>
            dy (being every day round our Earth) is far
              <lb/>
            ſwifter than the other, and ſo the Bullet muſt
              <lb/>
            be left behind, and at length fall down to us?
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1126" xml:space="preserve">To this I anſwer.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1127" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1128" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1129" xml:space="preserve">If a Bullet could be ſhot ſo far till it
              <lb/>
            it came to the Circumference of thoſe things
              <lb/>
            which belong to our Centre, then it would
              <lb/>
            fall down to us.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1130" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1131" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1132" xml:space="preserve">Though there were ſome Heavy Body
              <lb/>
            a great Height in that Air, yet would the Mo-
              <lb/>
            tion of that Magnetical Globe to which it did
              <lb/>
            belong by an attractive Virtue, ſtill hold it
              <lb/>
            within its convenient diſtance, whether their
              <lb/>
            Earth moved or ſtood ſtill, yet would the
              <lb/>
            ſame Violence caſt a Body from it equally far.
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1133" xml:space="preserve">That I may the plainer expreſs my meaning,
              <lb/>
            I will ſet down this Diagram.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1134" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum