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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112100That the Moon may be a World. non aliam proſecto viſam iri probabile eſt, qua@
qualis
modo viſatur lunaris globi ſpecies, ‘If you
‘conceive
your ſelf to be in ſome ſuch high
‘Place
, where you might Diſcern the whole
‘Globe
of the Earth and Water, when it was
‘Enlightened
by the Sun's Raies, ’tis Probable
‘it
would then Appear to you in the ſame
‘Shape
as the Moon doth now unto us.
So
Paulus
Foſcarinus.
Terra nihil ali@d eſt quam@
11In epiſt. ad
Sebaſt
.
Fant@mun
.
altera Luna, vel Stella, taliſq;
nobis appareret, ſiex
convenienti
elongatione eminus conſpiciretur, in
ipſaq
;
obſervari poſſent eadem aſpectuum varieta-
tes
, quæ in Lunâ apparent.
The Earth is no-
thing
elſe but another Moon or Star, and
would
appear ſo unto us if it were beheld at a
Convenient
Diſtance, with the ſame Changes,
and
Varieties as there are in the Moon.
Thus
22Fræfat. ad
Auſtriaca

ſyd
.
alſo Garolus Malapertius, whoſe words are
theſe
, Terra hæc noſtra, ſi in luna conſtituti
eſſemus
, ſplendida prorſus quaſi non ignobilis pla-
neta
, nobis appareret.
‘If we were placed in
‘the
Moon, and from thence beheld this Earth,
‘it
would appear unto us very Bright, like one
‘of
the Nobler Plannets.
Unto theſe doth
33Meteor.l.1.
c
.2. Art. 2.
Fromondus aſſent, when he ſays, Gredo equidem
quod
ſi oculus quiſpiam in orbe lunari foret, globum
terræ
&
aquæ inſtar ingentis ſyderis à ſole illuſtrem
conſpiceret
.
‘I believe that this Globe of Earth
‘and
Water would appear like ſome'great Star
‘to
any one, who ſhould Look upon it from
‘the
Moon.
Now this could not be, nor could
it
ſhine ſo Remarkably, unleſs the Beams of
Light
were Reflected from it.
And therefore
the
ſame Fromundus expreſly holds, that the firſt
Region
of Air is there Terminated, where

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