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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            commonly ſee refuted in the Gommentators on
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            the Books de Gælo.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1000" xml:space="preserve">Vitellio and Reinoldus, Affirm the Spots to
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-01" xlink:href="note-0077-01a" xml:space="preserve">Opt. lib. 9.
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              comment.
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              in Pnrb.
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              pag. 164.</note>
            be the Thicker parts of the Moon, into which
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            the Sun cannot Infuſe much Light; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1001" xml:space="preserve">and this
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            (ſay they) is the Reaſon why in theSuns Eclip-
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            ſes, the Spots and Brighter parts, are ſtill in ſome
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            meaſure Diſtinguiſhed, becauſe the Sun Beams
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            are not able ſo well to Penetrate through thoſe
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            Thicker, as they may through the Thinner
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            parts of that Planet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1002" xml:space="preserve">Of this Opinion alſo was
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            Gæſar la GaHa, whoſe Words are theſe, The
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            ‘ Moon doth there appear Cleareſt, where ſhe
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            ‘ is Tranſpicious, not only through the Superfi-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-02" xlink:href="note-0077-02a" xml:space="preserve">Ex'qua par-
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              te luna eſt
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              tranſpicua
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              non ſolum
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              ſecundum
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              ſuperficiem
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              ſed etiam
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              ſecundum
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              ſubſtantiam
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              eatenus cla-
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              ra, ex qna
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              autem parte
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              opaca eſt
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              eatenus ob-
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              ſcura vide-
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              tur. De Phæ-
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              nom. eap. II.
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              Albert.
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              mag. de
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              Coævis
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              Q. 4. Art.
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              12.
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              Colleg. Con.</note>
            ‘ cies, but the Subſtance alſo, and there ſhe
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            ‘ ſeems ſpotted, where her Body is moſt Opa-
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            cous. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1003" xml:space="preserve">The ground of this his Aſſertion, was,
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            becauſe he thought the Moon did receive and
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            beſtow her Light by Illumination only, and not
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            at all by reſlexion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1004" xml:space="preserve">but this, together with the
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            ſuppoſed Penetration of the Sun-Beams, and
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            the Perſpicuity of the Moons Body, I have
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            above Anſwered and Refuted.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1006" xml:space="preserve">The more Common and general Opinion, is,
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            that the Spots are the Thinner parts of the
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            Moon, which are leſs able to reflect the Beams
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            that they receive from the Sun, and this is moſt
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            agreeable to reaſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1007" xml:space="preserve">for if the Stars are there-
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            fore brighteſt, becauſe they are Thicker, and
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            more Solid than their Orbs, then it will follow,
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            that thoſe parts of the Moon which have leſs
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            Light, have alſo leſs Thickneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1008" xml:space="preserve">It was the
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            Providence of Nature (ſay ſome) that ſo con-
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            trived that Planet to have theſe Spots within
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            it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1009" xml:space="preserve">for ſince that is neareſt to thoſe lower </s>
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