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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            riences which Men of latter times have found
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            out, for the Confirmation of this Truth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1449" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1450" xml:space="preserve">Unto him aſſents Macrobius; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1451" xml:space="preserve">whoſe
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            Words are theſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1452" xml:space="preserve">Terra accepto ſolis lumine cla-
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            reſcit tantummodò, non relucet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1453" xml:space="preserve">‘The Earth is
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0111-01" xlink:href="note-0111-01a" xml:space="preserve">Somn. Scip.
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              l. 1. c. 19.</note>
            ‘ by the Sun Beams made Bright, but not able
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            ‘ to Enlighten any thing ſo far. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1454" xml:space="preserve">And his Rea-
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            ſon is, becauſe this being of a thick and Groſs
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            matter, the light is terminated in its Superſicies,
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            and cannot Penetrate into the Subſtance, where-
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            as the Moon doth therefore ſeem ſo Bright to
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            us, becauſe it receives the Beams within it ſelf.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1455" xml:space="preserve">But the Weakneſs of this Aſſertion, may be
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            eaſily Maniſeſt by a common Experience; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1456" xml:space="preserve">po-
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            liſhed Steel (whoſe Opacity will not give any
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            Admittance to the Raies) reſlects a ſtronger
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            Heat than Glaſs, and ſo Conſequently a greater
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            Light.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1458" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1459" xml:space="preserve">’Tis the general Conſent of Philoſophers,
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            that the Reflection of the Sun-Beams from the
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            Earth doth not reach much above half a
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            Mile high, where they Terminate the firſt Re-
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            gion, ſo that to Affirm they might aſcend to
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            the Moon, were to ſay, there were but one
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            Region of Air, which Contradicts the proved
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            and received Opinion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1461" xml:space="preserve">Unto this it may be Anſwered:</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1463" xml:space="preserve">That it is indeed the common Conſent, that
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            the Reſlection of the Sun-Beams reach only to
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            the Second Region; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1464" xml:space="preserve">but yet ſome there are,
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            and thoſe too, Philoſophers, of good Note,
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            who thought otherwiſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1465" xml:space="preserve">Thus Plotinus is Cited
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            by Cælius, ſi concipiat te in ſublimi quopiam mun-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0111-02" xlink:href="note-0111-02a" xml:space="preserve">Ant. lect. l.
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              1.c.4.</note>
            di loco, unde oculis ſubjiciatur terræ moles aquis
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            circumfuſa, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1466" xml:space="preserve">ſolis ſyderumq; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1467" xml:space="preserve">radiis </s>
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