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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132120That the Moon may be a World. lar Opinion; but it ſeemed moſt likely to
Gamillus
Glorioſus.
Th. Gampanella, Fromondus,
11De Comet.
l
. 5. c. 4.
Apol
. pro
Galil
.
Meteor
. l.
3
.c.2.Art. 6.
with ſome others.
But if you ask, whither
ſhall
all theſe Exhalations return?
I Anſwer,
every
one into his own Planet.
If it be again
Objected
, that then there will be ſo many
Centers
of Gravity, and each ſeveral Planet
will
be a diſtinct World;
I reply, we have not
like
probability concerning the reſt;
but yet,
perhaps
all of them are ſo, except the Sun, tho
Guſanus
, &
ſome others, think, there is one alſo;
22Lectant.
Fuſt
. l.3. c.
23
.
and later times have diſcovered ſome leſſer
Clouds
moving round about him.
But as for
Saturn
he hath two Moons on each ſide.
Fupiter
hath
four, that Incircle him with their Motion,
which
are likewiſe Eclipſed by the Interpoſiti-
on
of his Body, as the Moon is of our Earth.
Venus is obſerv’d to increaſe and decreaſe as
the
Moon.
And this perhaps hath been noted
by
former Ages, as may be gueſt by that Re-
lation
of St.
Auſtin out of Varro. Mars
33De Civit.
Dei
. l. 21.
cap
. 8.
and all the reſt, derive their Light from the
the
Sun.
Concerning Mercury, there hath
been
little or no Obſervation, becauſe, for the
moſt
part, he lies hid under the Sun-Beams,
and
ſeldom appears by himſelf.
But when he
does
, yet the compaſs of his Body is ſo little,
and
his Light of ſo clear a brightneſs, by rea-
ſon
of his nearneſs to the Sun, that the Per-
ſpective
cannot make the ſame Diſcoveries
upon
him, as from the reſt.

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