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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            experiment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4591" xml:space="preserve">If a Man upon a running
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            Horſe, ſhould, in his ſwifteſt courſe, let
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            fall a Bullet, or Stone, theſe heavy Bodies,
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            beſides their own deſcent, would alſo parti-
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            cipate that tranſverſe motion of the Horſe.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4592" xml:space="preserve">For as thoſe things that are thrown from us,
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            do continue their motion when they are out
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            of the hand in the open Air: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4593" xml:space="preserve">ſo likewiſe
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            muſt it be, when the force is conferred by
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            that motion which the Arm has from the
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            Horſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4594" xml:space="preserve">While a Man is riding, his Arm is
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            alſo carried by the ſame ſwiftneſs of the
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            Horſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4595" xml:space="preserve">therefore, if he ſhould only open
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            his Hand, and let fall any thing, it would
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            not deſcend in a ſtrait Line, but muſt ne-
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            ceſſarily be driven forward, by reaſon of
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            that force impreſſed in it by the ſwiftneſs of
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            the Horſe, which is alſo communicated to
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            the Arm; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4596" xml:space="preserve">it being all one in effect, whether
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            or no the Arm be moved by a particular mo-
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            tion of its own, as it is in caſting of things
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            from us, or by the common motion of the
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            Body, as it is in dropping any thing from
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            us, either when we are on the top of ſome
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            ſailing Ship, as in the former, or on ſome
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            running Horſe, as in the latter Inſtance.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4598" xml:space="preserve">What hath been ſaid concerning the Mo-
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            tion of deſcent, is likevviſe appliable, both
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            to that vvhich is upward, and that vvhich is
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            tranſverſal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4599" xml:space="preserve">So that vvhen ’tis objected, If
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            the Earth did move, then a Bullet that
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            vvere ſhot up perpendicularly, would be
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            forſaken by it, and not deſcend to the place
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            from whence it aroſe: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4600" xml:space="preserve">We anſwer; </s>
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