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

Table of contents

< >
[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.
< >
page |< < (63) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div249" type="section" level="1" n="58">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3496" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="63" file="0243" n="243" rhead="That the Earth may be a Planet."/>
            riſing of it in the midſt, does ſo intercept
              <lb/>
            our ſight from either of thoſe places, that
              <lb/>
            we cannot look in a ſtreight Line from the
              <lb/>
            one to the other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3497" xml:space="preserve">So that it may ſeem to be
              <lb/>
            no leſs than a Miracle, by which the Sea
              <lb/>
            (being a heavy Body) was with-held from
              <lb/>
            flowing down to thoſe lower places of B, or
              <lb/>
            C. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3498" xml:space="preserve">But now, if you conſider that the aſ-
              <lb/>
            cending of a Body, is its motion from the
              <lb/>
            Centre; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3499" xml:space="preserve">and deſcent, is its approaching
              <lb/>
            unto it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3500" xml:space="preserve">you ſhall find, that the Sea to move
              <lb/>
            from D, to B or C, is a motion of Aſcent,
              <lb/>
            which is contrary to its nature, becauſe the
              <lb/>
            Mountain at B, or C, are farther off from
              <lb/>
            the Centre, than the Sea at D, the Lines
              <lb/>
            A B, and A C, being longer than the other
              <lb/>
            A D. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3501" xml:space="preserve">So that for the Sea to keep always
              <lb/>
            in its Channel, is but agreeable to its Na-
              <lb/>
            ture, as being a heavy Body. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3502" xml:space="preserve">But the mean-
              <lb/>
            ing of thoſe Scriptures, is, to ſet forth the
              <lb/>
            Power and Wiſdom of God; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3503" xml:space="preserve">who hath ap-
              <lb/>
            pointed theſe Channels for it, and beſet it
              <lb/>
            with ſuch ſtrong Banks, to withſtand the
              <lb/>
            fury of its waves. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3504" xml:space="preserve">Or if theſe Men do ſo
              <lb/>
            much rely in natural Points, upon the bare
              <lb/>
            words of Scripture, they might eaſily be
              <lb/>
            confuted from thoſe other places, where
              <lb/>
            God is ſaid to have founded the Earth upon
              <lb/>
            the Seas, and eſtabliſhed it upon the Floods.
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3505" xml:space="preserve">From the literal interpretation of which,
              <lb/>
            many of the Ancients have fallen into ano-
              <lb/>
            ther Error; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3506" xml:space="preserve">affirming, the Water to be in
              <lb/>
            the lower place; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3507" xml:space="preserve">and as a baſis, whereon the
              <lb/>
            the weight of the Earth was born up. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3508" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>