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-s4279" xml:space="preserve">As for the Difficulties which concern the
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            ſecond of theſe, they have been already
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            handled in the ſixth Propoſition, where the
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            Earth's Eccentricity was maintained.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4281" xml:space="preserve">So that the chief buſineſs of this Chap-
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            ter, is to defend the Earth's Diurnal Moti-
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            on, againſt the Objections of our Adverſa-
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            ries. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4282" xml:space="preserve">Sundry of which Objections, to ſpeak
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            (as the Truth is) do bear in them a great
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            ſhew of probability, and ſuch too (as it
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            ſeems) was very efficacious, ſince Ariſtotle
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            and Ptolomy, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4283" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4284" xml:space="preserve">Men of excellent Parts,
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            and deep Judgments, did ground upon them,
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            as being of infallible and neceſſary conſe-
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            quence.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4286" xml:space="preserve">I ſhall reckon them up ſeverally, and ſet
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            down ſuch Anſwers unto each, as may yield
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            ſome ſatisfaction to every indifferent ſeeker
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            of Truth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4288" xml:space="preserve">Firſt then, ’tis objected from our ſenſes;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4289" xml:space="preserve">If the Earth did move, we ſhould perceive
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            it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4290" xml:space="preserve">The Weſtern Mountains would then ap-
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            pear to aſcend towards theStars, rather than
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            the Stars to deſcend below them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4292" xml:space="preserve">I anſwer: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4293" xml:space="preserve">The ſight judges of Motion,
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            according as any thing does deſert the Plane
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            whereon it ſelf is ſeated: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4294" xml:space="preserve">which Plane
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            every where keeping the ſame ſcituation and
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            diſtance, in reſpect of the Eye, does there-
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            fore ſeem immovable unto it, and the mo-
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            tion will appear in thoſe Stars and parts of
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            the Heaven, through which the Vertical
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            Line does paſs.</s>
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