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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But this by the way. For the better proof
of
this Propoſition, I might here Cite the Te-
ſtimony
of Diodorus, who thought the Moon
to
be full of rugged places, velut terreſtribus
tumultis
ſupercilioſam;
but he erred much in
ſome
Circumſtances of this Opinion, eſpecial-
ly
where he ſays, there is an Iſland amongſt
the
Hyperboreans, wherein thoſe Hills may
to
the Eye be plainly diſcover'd;
and for this
reaſon
Gælius calls him a Fabulous Writer.
11Lect. aut.
l
. 1. c. 15.
But you may ſee more expreſs Authority for
the
Proof of this in the Opinions of Anaxago-
22Plut. de
plac
. l. 2. c.
25
.
ras and Democritus, who held that this Planet
was
full of Champion Grounds, Mountains
and
Vallies.
And this ſeemed likewiſe proba-
ble
unto Auguſtinus Nifus, whoſe words are
theſe
:
Forſitan non eſt remotum dicere lunæ par-
33De calo.l. 2.
part
. 49.
tes eſſe diverſas, veluti ſunt partes terræ, quarum
aliæ
ſunt valloſæ, aliæ montoſæ, ex quarum diffe-
rentia
effici poteſt facies illa lunæ;
nec eſt rationi
diſſonum
, nam luna eſt corpus imperfecte Sphæ-
ricum
, cum ſit corpus ab ultimo cœlo elongatum,
ut
ſupra dixit Ariſtoteles.
‘Perhaps, it

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