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 |< < (112) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div296" type="section" level="1" n="63">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4365" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="112" file="0292" n="292" rhead="That the Earth may be a Planet."/>
            Weſtward: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4366" xml:space="preserve">I ſay, if the Motion of the
              <lb/>
            Heavens, which are ſmooth Bodies, may be
              <lb/>
            able to carry with it ſo great a part of the
              <lb/>
            Elementary World: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4367" xml:space="preserve">or if the rugged parts
              <lb/>
            of the Moon's Body, be able to carry with
              <lb/>
            it ſo great a part of the Air, as Fromondus
              <lb/>
            (Ant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4368" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4369" xml:space="preserve">16.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4370" xml:space="preserve">affirms; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4371" xml:space="preserve">much more then may
              <lb/>
            our Earth, which is a rugged mountanous
              <lb/>
            Body, be able to turn about ſo little a part
              <lb/>
            of the World, as that vaporous Air next
              <lb/>
            unto it.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4372" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <figure number="11">
            <image file="0292-01" xlink:href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/zogilib?fn=/permanent/library/xxxxxxxx/figures/0292-01"/>
          </figure>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4373" xml:space="preserve">Suppoſe the inward Circle to repreſent
              <lb/>
            the Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4374" xml:space="preserve">and the outward, the thicker
              <lb/>
            Air which encompaſſes it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4375" xml:space="preserve">Now it is eaſily
              <lb/>
            conceivable, that the revolution of ſo great
              <lb/>
            a Body as this. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4376" xml:space="preserve">Globe of Earth, may </s>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>