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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4681" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4682" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4683" xml:space="preserve">The Air which is next the Earth,
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            would be purer, as being rarified with Mo-
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            tion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4685" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4686" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4687" xml:space="preserve">If the Earth did move the Air, it
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            would cauſe ſome ſound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4688" xml:space="preserve">but this is no more
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            audible, than Pythagoras his Harmony of the
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            Heavens.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4690" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4691" xml:space="preserve">4. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4692" xml:space="preserve">’Twould have been in vain for
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            Nature to have endowed the Heavens with
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            all conditions requiſite for motion, if they
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            had been to ſtand ſtill: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4693" xml:space="preserve">As, firſt, they have
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            a round Figure. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4694" xml:space="preserve">Secondly, They have nei-
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            ther gravity nor levity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4695" xml:space="preserve">Thirdly, They
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            are incorruptible. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4696" xml:space="preserve">Fourthly, They have
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            no contrary.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4698" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4699" xml:space="preserve">5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4700" xml:space="preserve">All ſimilary parts are of the ſame
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            nature with the whole: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4701" xml:space="preserve">But each part of
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            the Earth does reſt in its place; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4702" xml:space="preserve">therefore
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            alfo doth the whole.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4704" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4705" xml:space="preserve">6. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4706" xml:space="preserve">The Sun in the World, is as the
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            Heart in a Man's Body: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4707" xml:space="preserve">But the Motion of
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            the Heart ceaſing, none of the Members do
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            ſtir; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4708" xml:space="preserve">therefore alſo if the Sun ſhould ſtand
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            ſtill, the other parts of the World would be
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            without motion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4710" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4711" xml:space="preserve">7. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4712" xml:space="preserve">The Sun and Heavens, do work
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            upon theſe inferior Bodies by their Light
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            and Motion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4713" xml:space="preserve">So the Moon does operate up-
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            on the Sea.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4715" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4716" xml:space="preserve">8. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4717" xml:space="preserve">The Earth is the Foundation of
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            Buildings; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4718" xml:space="preserve">and therefore muſt be firm and
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            ſtable.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4720" xml:space="preserve">Arg. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4721" xml:space="preserve">9. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4722" xml:space="preserve">’Tis the conſtant opinion of Di-
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            vines, that the Heavens ſhall reſt after </s>
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