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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            nicus’s obſervations, and did intend to write
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-01" xlink:href="note-0194-01a" xml:space="preserve">Ibid.</note>
            a Commentary upon his other Works, but
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            that he was taken out of this Life before he
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            could finiſh thoſe reſolutions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2684" xml:space="preserve">Unto theſe
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            alſo I might add the names of Gilbert, Keplar,
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            Gallilæus, with ſundry others, who have much
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            beautified and confirmed this Hypotheſis, with
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            their new inventions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2685" xml:space="preserve">Nay, I may ſafely af-
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            firm, that amongſt the variety of thoſe Opi-
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            nions that are in Aſtronomy, there are more (of
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            thoſe which have skill in it) that are of this
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            Opinion, not only than any other, but
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            than all the reſt put together. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2686" xml:space="preserve">So that now
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            it is a greater Argument of Singularity to
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            oppoſe it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2688" xml:space="preserve">’Tis probable, that many other of the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-02" xlink:href="note-0194-02a" xml:space="preserve">5 Conſid.</note>
            Antients would have aſſented unto this Opi-
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            nion, if they had been acquainted with thoſe
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            experiments which later times have found
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            out for the confirmation of it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2689" xml:space="preserve">And there-
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            fore Rheticus and Keplar do ſo often
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-03" xlink:href="note-0194-03a" xml:space="preserve">In Nar-
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              ratione.</note>
            that Ariſtotle were now alive again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2690" xml:space="preserve">Queſti-
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            onleſs he was ſo rational and ingenious a
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              <note symbol="†" position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-04" xlink:href="note-0194-04a" xml:space="preserve">Myſt.
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              Coſmogr.
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              cap. 1. Item
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              pref. ad 4.
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              1. Aſtr. Co-
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              pern.</note>
            Man (not half ſo obſtinate as many of his
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            followers) that upon ſuch probabilities as
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            theſe, he would quickly have renounced his
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            ownPrinciples, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2691" xml:space="preserve">have come over to this ſide:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2692" xml:space="preserve">For in one place, having propoſed ſome
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            queſtions about the Heavens, which were
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-05" xlink:href="note-0194-05a" xml:space="preserve">de Cal. l. 2.
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              c. 12.</note>
            not eaſie to be reſolved: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2693" xml:space="preserve">He ſets down this
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            rule, that in difficulties, a Man may take a
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            liberty to ſpeak that which ſeems moſt like-
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            ly to him: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2694" xml:space="preserve">And in ſuch caſes, an aptneſs to
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            gueſs at ſome reſolution, for the </s>
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