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

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
91 79
92 80
93 81
94 82
95 83
96 84
97 85
98 86
99 87
100 88
101 89
102 90
103 91
104 92
105 93
106 94
107 95
108 96
109 97
110 98
111 99
112 100
113 101
114 102
115 103
116 104
117 105
118 106
119 107
120 108
< >
page |< < (67) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div98" type="section" level="1" n="35">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1016" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="67" file="0079" n="79" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
            thicker parts appearing in her, do ſhew the
              <lb/>
            difference betwixt the Sea and Land in that
              <lb/>
            other World? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1017" xml:space="preserve">and Galilæus doubts not, but
              <lb/>
            that if our Earth were viſible at the ſame di-
              <lb/>
            ſtance, there would be the like appearance of it.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1018" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1019" xml:space="preserve">If we conſider the Moon as another habi-
              <lb/>
            table Earth, then the appearances of it will
              <lb/>
            be altogether exact, and beautiful, and may
              <lb/>
            argue unto that, it is fully accompliſhed for
              <lb/>
            all thoſe ends to which Providence did appoint
              <lb/>
            it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1020" xml:space="preserve">But conſider it barely as a Star or Light,
              <lb/>
            and then there will appear in it much imper-
              <lb/>
            fection and deformity, as being of an impure
              <lb/>
            dark ſubſtance, and ſo unfit for the Office of
              <lb/>
            that Nature.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1021" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1022" xml:space="preserve">As for the Form of thoſe Spots, ſome of
              <lb/>
            the Vulgar think, they repreſent a Man, and
              <lb/>
            the Poetsgueſs, ’tis the Boy Endymion, whoſe
              <lb/>
            Company ſhe Loves ſo well, that ſhe carries
              <lb/>
            him with her; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1023" xml:space="preserve">others will have it only to be
              <lb/>
            the Face of a Man, as the Moon is uſually pi-
              <lb/>
            ctured; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1024" xml:space="preserve">but Albertus thinks rather, that it re-
              <lb/>
              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0079-01" xlink:href="note-0079-01a" xml:space="preserve">Euſebius
                <lb/>
              Nicremb.
                <lb/>
              Hiſt. Na.
                <lb/>
              l. 8. c. 19.</note>
            preſents a Lyon, with his Tail towards the
              <lb/>
            Eaſt, and his Head the Weſt, and ſome others
              <lb/>
            have thought it to be very much like a Fox, and certainly, ’tis as much like a Lyon, as that
              <lb/>
            in the Zodiake, or as Urſa major is like a Bear.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1025" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1026" xml:space="preserve">I ſhould gueſs, that it repreſents one of
              <lb/>
            theſe, as well as another, and any thing elſe,
              <lb/>
            as well as any of theſe, ſince ’tis but a ſtrong ima-
              <lb/>
            gination, which fancies ſuch Images, as School
              <lb/>
            Boys uſually do, in the marks of a Wall, where-
              <lb/>
            as there is not any ſuch ſimilitude in the ſpots
              <lb/>
            themſelves, which rather like our Sea, in re-
              <lb/>
            ſpect of the Land, appears under a rugged </s>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum