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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If you behold the Moon a little before or
after
the Conjunction, when ſhe is in a Sextile
with
the Sun, you may diſcern not only the
part
which is enlightned, but the reſt alſo to
have
in it a kind of a duskiſh Light;
but if
you
chuſe out ſuch a Situation, where ſome
Houſe
or Chimney (being ſome 70 or 80 pa-
ces
diſtant from you) may hide from your Eye
the
enlightned Horns, you may then diſcern a
greater
and more remarkable ſhining in thoſe
parts
unto which the Sun-Beams cannot reach;
may there is ſo great a Light, that by the help
of
a good Perſpective you may diſcern its ſpots.

In
ſo much that Blancanus the Jeſuit ſpeaking
of
it, ſays, Hæc experientia ita me aliquando
11De mundi
fab
. p. 3.
c
. 3.
fefellit, ut in hunc fulgorem caſu ac repente inci-
dens
, exiftimarim novo quodam miraculo tempore
adoleſcentis
lunæ factum eſſe plenilunium.
‘This
‘Experiment
did once ſo deceive me, that hap-
‘pening
upon the ſight of this brightneſs upon
‘a
ſudden, I thought that by ſome new miracle
‘the
Moon had been got into her Full a little
‘after
her Change.

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