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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head83" xml:space="preserve">PROP. VIII.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head84" style="it" xml:space="preserve">That there is not any ſufficient reaſon to
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          prove the Earth incapable of thoſe mo-
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          tions which Copernicus aſcribes un-
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          to it.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4267" xml:space="preserve">THe two chief Motions in the World,
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            which are more eſpecially remarkable
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            above the reſt, are the Diurnal, and An-
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            nual.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4269" xml:space="preserve">The Diurnal, which makes the difference
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            betwixt Night and Day, is cauſed by the
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            Revolution of our Earth upon its own Axis,
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            in the ſpace of four and twenty hours.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4271" xml:space="preserve">The Annual, which makes the difference
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            betwixt Winter and Summer, is likewiſe
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            cauſed by the Earth, when being carried
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            through the Ecliptick in its own Orb, it ſi-
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            niſhes its courſe in a Year.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4273" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is uſually ſtiled, Motus Revolu-
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            tionis : </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4274" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond, Motus Circumlationis :
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4275" xml:space="preserve">There is likewiſe a third, which Copernicus
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            calls, Motus Inclinationis: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4276" xml:space="preserve">But this being
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            throughly conſidered, cannot properly be
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            ſtiled a Motion, but rather an Immutability,
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            it being that whereby the Axis of the Earth
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            does always keep parallel to it ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4277" xml:space="preserve">from
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            which ſcituation, it is not its Annual Courſe
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            that does make it in the leaſt manner to de-
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            cline.</s>
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