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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6250That the Moon may be a World. in his Preface to his Treatiſe concerning the
Auſtriaca
ſydera;
Luna, Venus, & Mercurius,
terreſtris
&
humidœ ſunt ſubſtati ideoquœ de ſuo
non
lucere, ſicut nec terra.
The Moon, Venus,
and
Mercury, ſaith he, are of an Earthly and
moiſt
Subſtance, and therefore have no more
Light
of their own, than the Earth hath.
Nay,
ſome
there are, who think (though without
Ground
) that all the other Stars do receive that
Light
whereby they appear Viſible to us, from
the
Sun:
So Ptolomy, Iſidore Iſpalenſis, 11Originum
l
. 3. c. 60.
Albertus Magnus, and Bede;
much more then muſt the Moon ſhine with a borrowed
22D; Cœlo.
1
. 2:
Light.
The Moabites in Fehoram's time, when they
772 King. 3.
22
.
Roſe Early in the Morning, and beheld

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