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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[Item 1.]
[2.] Ex Libris James S. Dearden Rampside
[3.] A DISCOVERY OF A New , OR,
[4.] In Two Parts.
[5.] The Fifth Edition Corrected and Amended. LONDON,
[6.] The Epiſtle to the READER.
[7.] The Propoſitions that are proved in this Diſcourſe. PROPOSITION I.
[8.] PROP. II.
[9.] PROP. III.
[10.] PROP. IV.
[11.] PROP. V.
[12.] PROP. VI.
[13.] PROP. VII.
[14.] PROP. VIII.
[15.] PROP. IX.
[16.] PROP. X.
[17.] PROP. XI.
[18.] PROP. XII.
[19.] PROP. XIII.
[20.] PROP. XIV.
[21.] The Firſt Book. That the MOON May be a WORLD. The Firſt Propoſition, by way of Preface.
[22.] Sed vanus ſtolidis hæc omnia finxerit Error.
[23.] Solis lunæq; labores.
[24.] Cum fruſtra reſonant æra auxiliaria Lunæ.
[25.] Una laboranti poterit ſuccerrere Lunæ.
[26.] Gantus & è cælo poſſunt deducere Lunam.
[27.] Cantus & ſi curru lunam deducere tentant, Et facerent, ſi non æra repulſa ſonant.
[28.] PROP. II. That a Plurality of Worlds doth not contradict any Principle of Reaſon or Faith.
[29.] Æſtuas infelix auguſto limite mundi.
[30.] PROP. III. That the Heavens do not conſiſt of any ſuch pure Matter, which can priviledge them from the like Change and Corruption, as theſe Inferiour, Bodies are liable unto.
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164That the Moon may be a World.
1. Other Truths have been formerly accoun-
ted
as ridiculous as this.
I ſhall ſpecifie that
of
the Antipodes, which have been denyed,
and
laught at by many wiſe Men and great
Scholars
, ſuch as were Herodotus, Chryſoſtom,
11Vid. Foſeph.
Acaſto
de
nat
. novi
Grbis
lib. 1.
cap
. 1.
Auſtin, Lactantius, the Venerable Bede, Lucre-
tius
the Poet, Procopius, and the Voluminous
Abulenſis
, together with all thoſe Fathers or
other
Authors who denyed the roundneſs of
the
Heavens.
Herodotus counted it ſo horri-
ble
abſurdity, that he could not forbear laugh-
ing
to think of it.
Γελῶ δρῶο γῆς {πρι}ύδ(ου}ς γ{ρἀ} ψαν-
τας
, {πο}λλ{οὺ}ς ἤδη {καὶ} {οὐ} δένα νόον {χο}ντας {ὀξ}ηγ{οα} {μέν}ον ὂι
’Ωκεαοόντε
ρεόντα γ{ρά} Φ{ου}σι, πέ{ρι}ξ τ{ὴν} τε γ{ὴν} {οῦ}οαν
κυκλοτ
ερέα ὤς \’δπὸ τόρν{ου}.
‘I cannot chooſe but laugh
(ſaith he) to ſee ſo many Men venture to de-
‘ſcribe
the Earths Compaſs, relating thoſe
‘things
that are without Senſe, as that the Sea
‘flows
about the World, and that the Earth it
‘ſelf
is as round as an Orb.
But this great Ig-
norance
is not ſo much to be admired in him,
as
in thoſe Learneder Men of later times, when
all
Sciences began to flouriſh in the World.
Such were St. Chryſoſtome, who in his 14 Ho-
mily
upon the Hebrews, doth make a challenge
to
any Man that ſhall dare to defend, that the
Heavens
are Round, and not rather as a Tent.

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