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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6755That the Moon may be a World. on enough, to ſay, ’tis Plato’s. However, for
the
ſirſt part of this Aſſertion, it was aſſented
unto
by many others, and by Reaſon oſ the
Groſſneſs
and inequality of this Planet, ’twas
frequently
call’d quaſi terra cœleſtis, as being
11De facie
Lunæ
.
eſteem’d the Sedement, and more imperfect
part
of thoſe purer Bodies;
you may ſee this
Prov’d
by Plutarch, in that delightful Work
22Inſtit. ad
diſcp
. Plat.
Cœl
. Rho-
dig
. l. I c.4.
which he properly made for the Conſirmation
of
this particular.
With him agreed Alcinous
and
Plotinus, later Writers.
The Cardinal Guſanus and Fornandus Brunus
33Cuſa. de
doct
.ign. l. 2.
cap
. 12.
held a particular World in every Star, and
therefore
one of them Deſigning our Earth, he
ſays
, it is Stella quædam nobilis, quæ lunam &

calorem
&
influentiam babet aliam, & diverſam
ab
omnibus aliis ſtellis;
‘A Noble Star, having
a diſtinct Light, Heat, and Infiuence from
44Philoſ.
Epicur
.
part
. 434.
all the reſt.
Unto this Nichol. Hill, a Coun-
try
Man of ours, was enclin’d, when he ſaid,
Aſtrea
terræ natura probabilis eſt:
‘That ’tis
probable the Earth hath a Starry Nature.
But the Opinion which I have here deliver’d
55In Theſi.
bus
.
was more directly prov’d by Mæſlin, 66Diſſerta-
tio
cum
Nunc
.
77Nuncius
Syderius
.
Keplar, Galileus, each of them late Writers, and famous Men for their ſingular Skill in A-
ftronomy
.
Keplar calls this World by the Name
of
Levania, from the Hebrew Word תגבל,
which
ſigniſies the Moon, and our Earth by
88Somn. Aſtr.

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