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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350170That the Earth may be a Planet. aftervvards, both of them being carried to
(Gg), then Jupiter vvill appear at (s),
as
if by a haſty motion he had returned
from
his former Courſe the ſpace (xs):
Both of them paſſing to (Hh), this Planet
vvill
ſtill ſeem to be ſvviftly Retrograde, and
appear
in the Point at (p);
but vvhen they
come
to the Points (Ii), Jupiter vvill then
ſeem
to be ſlovver in this Motion, and to
have
only paſſed the ſpace (pn).
Both of
them
being transferred to (Kk), Jupiter
vvill
then appear in the Zodiack at (o), as
being
again Direct, going forvvard accord-
ing
to the order of the Signs;
and vvhile
the
Earth did paſs the Arch (IK), Jupiter
then
remain’d betvveen the Points (no),
and
ſo conſequently, did again ſeem to be
Stationary
.
Both of them coming to (Ll),
and
thenceto (Mm), Jupiter vvill ſtill ap-
pear
Direct, and to have gone forvvard in
the
Zodiack from (q) to (t).
So that all
the
ſpace vvherein Jupiter is Retrograde, is
repreſented
by the Arch (nz).
In vvhich
ſpace
, he himſelf moves in his ovvn Orb, the
Arch
(ei), and ſo the Earth in its Orb, a
proportional
ſpace (EI).
As it hath been ſaid of this Planet, ſo like-
vviſe
is it appliable to the other.
Saturn,
Mars
, Venus, Mercury;
all vvhich are thus
made
to appear direct, ſtationary, and retro-
grade
, by the motion of our Earth, vvith-
out
the help of thoſe Epycicles and Eccen-
tricks
, and ſuch unneceſſary Wheel-vvork,
vvherevvith
Ptolomy hath filled the Heavens.

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