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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134122That the Moon may be a World. us; they are the Words of Fienus (as they
are
quoted by Fromondus in the above cited
place
) poſſunt maxime permutationes in cælo fieri
etiamſi
a nobis non conſpiciantur;
hoc viſus noſtri
debilitas
&
immenſa cœli diſtantia faciunt. And
unto
him aſſents Fromondus himſelf, when a
a
little after he ſays, Si in ſphæris planetarum
degeremus
, plurima forſan cœleſtium nebularum
vellera
toto æthere paſſim diſperſa videremus,
quorum
ſpecies jam eveneſcit nimiâ ſpatii interca
pedine
.
‘If we did live in the Spheres of the
Planets, we might there perhaps diſcern ma-
ny great Clouds diſperſed through the whole
Heavens, which are not viſible by reaſon of
this great diſtance.
2. Mæſlin and Keplar affirm, that they have
ſeen
ſome of theſe Alterations.
The Words
of
Mæſlin are theſe (as I find them cited) In
eclipſi
lunari veſpere Dominicæ Palmarum Anni
11Differt. 2.
cum
nunc.
Galil
.
item
Somn.
Aſtron
.notd
ultima
.
1605.
in corpore lunæ verſus Boream, nigricans
quædam
macula conſpecta fuit, obſcurior cætero
toto
corpore, quod candentis ferri figuram repre-
ſentabat
;
dixiſſes nubila in multam regionem ex-
tenſa
pluviis &
tempeſiuoſis imbribus gravida,
cujuſmodi
ab excelſorum montium jugis in humi-
liora
convallium loca videre non raro contingit.
In that Lunary Eclipſe which happened in the
Even of Palm-Sunday, in the year 1605.
there
was a certain blackiſh ſpot diſcern’d in the
Northerly part of the Moon, being darker
than any other place of her Body, and repre-
ſenting the colour of red hot Iron;
You
might conjecture that it was ſome dilated
Cloud, being pregnant with Showres;
for
thus do ſuch lower Clouds appear from the
tops of high Moun tains.

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