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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            mets which have been ſeen above the Moon.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s510" xml:space="preserve">As alſo thoſe Spots or Clouds that Encompaſs
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            the Body of the Sun, amongſt which, there
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            is a frequent Succeſſion by a Corruption of
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            the Old, and a Generation of New. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s511" xml:space="preserve">So that
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            though Ariſtotle's Conſequence were ſufficient,
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            when he prov'd that the Heavens were not
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            Corruptible, becauſe there have not any
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            Changes been diſcover'd in them: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s512" xml:space="preserve">yet this
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            by the ſame Reaſon muſt be as prevalent, that
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            the Heavens are Corruptible, becauſe there
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            have been ſo many Alterations obſerv'd there; </s>
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            But of theſe, together with a farther Confir-
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            mation of this Propoſition, I ſhall have occa-
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            ſion to ſpeak afterwards; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s514" xml:space="preserve">In the mean Space,
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            I will refer the Reader to that Work of Shei-
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            nar, a late Jeſuit, which he Titles his Roſa
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            Urſina, where he may ſee this Point concern-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0044-01" xlink:href="note-0044-01a" xml:space="preserve">Lib. 4. par.
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              2. cap. 24.
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              35.</note>
            ing the Coruptibility of the Heavens, largely
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            Handled, and ſufficiently conſirm'd.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s516" xml:space="preserve">There are ſome other things, on which I
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            might here take an occaſion to enlarge my
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            ſelf; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s517" xml:space="preserve">but becauſe they are directly Handled
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            by many others, and do not immediately be-
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            long to the chief matter in hand; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s518" xml:space="preserve">I ſhall there-
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            fore reſer the Reader to their Authors, and
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            Omit any large Proof of them my ſelf, as
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            deſiring all poſſible Brevity.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s520" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s521" xml:space="preserve">The firſt is this: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s522" xml:space="preserve">That there are no ſolid
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            Orbs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s523" xml:space="preserve">If there be a Habitable World in the
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            Moon (which I now affirm) it muſt follow,
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            that her Orb is not Solid as Ariſtotle ſuppos'd;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s524" xml:space="preserve">and if not hers, why any of the other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s525" xml:space="preserve">I ra-
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            ther think that they are all of a Fluid (per-
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            haps Aerous) Subſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s526" xml:space="preserve">Saint Ambroſe, </s>
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