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
31 19
32 20
33 21
34 22
35 23
36 24
37 25
38 26
39 27
40 28
41 29
42 30
43 31
44 32
45 33
46 34
47 35
48 36
49 37
50 38
51 39
52 40
53 41
54 42
55 43
56 44
57 45
58 46
59 47
60 48
< >
page |< < (103) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div133" type="section" level="1" n="40">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1505" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="103" file="0115" n="115" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
            the ſame Darkneſs from the Eclipſes, being
              <lb/>
            alſo ſeverally helped by one another in their
              <lb/>
            greateſt wants: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1506" xml:space="preserve">For when the Moon is in
              <lb/>
            Conjunction with the Sun, and her upper part
              <lb/>
            receives all the Light, then her lower Hemi-
              <lb/>
            ſphere (which would otherwiſe be altogether
              <lb/>
            dark) is enlightned by the Reſlexion of the
              <lb/>
            Sun-Beams from the Earth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1507" xml:space="preserve">When theſe two
              <lb/>
            Planets are in Oppoſition, then that part of the
              <lb/>
            Earth which could not receive any Light from
              <lb/>
            the Sun-Beams, is moſt Enlightned by the
              <lb/>
            Moon, being then in the Full; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1508" xml:space="preserve">and as ſhe doth
              <lb/>
            moſt Illuminate the Earth when the Sun-Beams
              <lb/>
            cannot, ſo the grateful Earth returns to her as
              <lb/>
            great (nay greater) Light when ſhe moſt wants
              <lb/>
            it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1509" xml:space="preserve">ſo that always that viſible part of the Moon
              <lb/>
            which receives nothing from the Sun, is en-
              <lb/>
            lightned by the Earth, as is prov’d by Galiæ-
              <lb/>
            us, with many more Arguments in that Trea-
              <lb/>
            tiſe which he calls Syſtema mundi. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1510" xml:space="preserve">True in-
              <lb/>
            deed, when the Moon comes to a quartile,
              <lb/>
            then you can neither diſcern this Light, nor
              <lb/>
            yet the darker part of her Body, and that for
              <lb/>
            a double Reaſon.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1511" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1512" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1513" xml:space="preserve">Becauſe the nearer it comes to the Full,
              <lb/>
            the leſs Light does it receive from the Earth,
              <lb/>
            whoſe Illumination does always decreaſe in
              <lb/>
            the ſame Proportion as the Moon does In-
              <lb/>
            creaſe.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1514" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1515" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1516" xml:space="preserve">Becauſe of the Exuperancy of the Light
              <lb/>
              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0115-01" xlink:href="note-0115-01a" xml:space="preserve">Scal. exerc.
                <lb/>
              62.</note>
            in the other parts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1517" xml:space="preserve">Quippe illuſtratum medium
              <lb/>
            ſpeciem recipit valentiorem, the clearer bright-
              <lb/>
            neſs involves the Sight, as it is with thoſe of
              <lb/>
            Sound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1518" xml:space="preserve">and as the greater Noiſe drowns the
              <lb/>
            leſs, ſo the brighter Objecthides that which </s>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum