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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4296" xml:space="preserve">The reaſon of ſuch deceit may be this:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4297" xml:space="preserve">Motion being not a proper Object of the
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            Sight, nor belonging to any other peculiar
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            Senſe, muſt therefore be judged of by the
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            ſenſus communis, which is liable to miſtake
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            in this reſpect; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4298" xml:space="preserve">becauſe it apprehends the
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            Eye it ſelf to reſt immovable, whilſt it does
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            not feel any Effects of this Motion in the
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            Body: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4299" xml:space="preserve">As it is when a Man is carried in a
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            Ship; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4300" xml:space="preserve">ſo that Senſe is but an ill Judg of Na-
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            tural Secrets. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4301" xml:space="preserve">’Tis a good Rule of Plato,
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            EIS Τ
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            ν{ου}ν ἀφορᾶνδ{εῖ} ΦιλόοοΦον {καὶ}μὴεις τ{ὴυ}
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            ὅψν A Philoſopher muſt not be carried
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            away by the bare appearance of things to
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            ſight, but muſt examine them by reaſon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4302" xml:space="preserve">If
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            this were a good Conſequence, The Earth
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            does not move, becauſe it does not appear
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            ſo to us; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4303" xml:space="preserve">we might then as well argue, that
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            it does move when we go upon the Water; </s>
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            according to the Verſe:</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head85" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4306" xml:space="preserve">Or if ſuch Arguments would hold, it were
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            an eaſy matter to prove the Sun and Moon
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            not ſo big as a Hat, or the fixed Stars as a
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            Candle.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4308" xml:space="preserve">Yea, but if the Motions of the Heavens
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0288-01" xlink:href="note-0288-01a" xml:space="preserve">Al. Roſſ.
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              be only apparent, and not real, then the
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              l. 1. ſect.1.
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              cap.1.</note>
            Motion of the Clouds will be ſo too, ſince
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            the Eye may be as well deceived in the one
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            as the other.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4310" xml:space="preserve">I anſwer: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4311" xml:space="preserve">’Tis all one, as if he ſhould in-
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