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

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.

364184That the Earth may be a Planet. Pyramids which were built to perpetuate
the memory of their Founders, ſhall ſooner
periſh and moulder away into their Primi-
tive Duſt, than the Names of ſuch Wor-
thies ſhall be forgotten. The Monuments
of Learning are more durable than the Mo-
numents of Wealth or Power.

All which Encouragements may be abun-
dantly enough to ſtir up any conſidering
Man, to beſtow ſome part of his time in the
ſtudy and inquiſition of theſe Truths.

Fœlices animæ, quibus hæc cognoſcere primum,
# Inq; domos ſuperas ſcandere cura fuit.

FINIS.

Books ſold by John Gellibrand, at the
# Golden Ball in St. Pauls Church-Yard.

BOneti Anatomia. 2 Vol. ir Folio.
Zodiacus Medico-Gallicus, pro 3 Annis. 40
Bp VVilkins Sermons, and Beauty of Provi-
# dence. In Octavo.

Pluturch’s Morals, tranſlated from the Greek
# by ſeveral Hands. In Oetavo.

Remarks upon the deplorable Fall of the
# Emperor Julian. In Zuarto.

A Triennial Viſitation-Sermon, preach’d at
# Reading, before Seth L. Biſhop of Salisbury.
# By John Barrow Prebend of VVindſor.

Baudrandi Geographia ordine literarum diſpo-
# ſita. 2 Vol. in Fol. Paris. 1682.

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