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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            appeared as dull and ruddy almoſt as the Moon
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            in her Eclipſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1352" xml:space="preserve">in ſo much that the Stars have
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            been ſeen at Mid-day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1353" xml:space="preserve">Nay, he hath been
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            conſtantly darkned for almoſt a whole Year,
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            and never ſhined, but with a kind of heavy and
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            duskiſh Light, ſo that there was ſcarce heat
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            enough to Ripen the Fruits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1354" xml:space="preserve">As it was about
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            the time when Gæſar was kill'd. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1355" xml:space="preserve">Which was
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            recorded by ſome of the Poets. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1356" xml:space="preserve">Thus Virgil,
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            ſpeaking of the Sun.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1358" xml:space="preserve">Ille etiam extincto miſeratus Gæſare Romam.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1359" xml:space="preserve">Gum caput obſcurâ nitidum ferrugine texit,
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            Impiaque æternam timuerunt ſæcula noctem. </s>
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            He pitying Rome, when as great Cæſar dy'd,
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            His Head within a mourning-vail did hide; </s>
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            And thus the wicked guilty World did fright
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            With doubtful Fears of an Eternal Night. </s>
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            Ovid ſpeaking likewife of his Death,
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            --Solis quoque triſtis Imago
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            Lurida ſollicitis præbebat lumina terris. </s>
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            --The Suns ſad Image then
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            Did yield a lowring light to fearful Men.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1365" xml:space="preserve">Now theſe appearances could not ariſe from
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            any lower Vapour. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1366" xml:space="preserve">For then 1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1367" xml:space="preserve">They would
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            not have been ſo univerſal as they were, being
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            ſeen through all Europe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1368" xml:space="preserve">or elſe 2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1369" xml:space="preserve">That Va-
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            pour muſt have cover'd the Stars as well as the
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            Sun, which yet notwitſtanding were plainly
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            diſcern'd in the day time. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1370" xml:space="preserve">You may ſee this
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            Argument illuſtrated in another the like caſe,
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            Chap. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1371" xml:space="preserve">12. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1372" xml:space="preserve">Hence then it will follow, that
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            this Fuliginous matter, which did thus obſcure
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            the Sun, muſt needs be very near his Body;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1373" xml:space="preserve">and if ſo, then, what can we more probably
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            gueſs it to be, then Evaporations from it?</s>
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