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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            to this purpoſe in theſe Words. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s482" xml:space="preserve">Ex illâ ali-
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            menta omnibus animalibus, omnibus ſatis, omnibus
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            ſtellis dividuntur, hinc proſertur quo fuſtineantur
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            tot Sidera tam exercitata, tam avida per diem,
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            noctemque, ut in opere, ita in paſtu. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s483" xml:space="preserve">Speaking
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            of the Earth, he ſays, from thence it is that
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            Nouriſhment is divided to all the Living
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            Creatures, the Plants and the Stars; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s484" xml:space="preserve">hence
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            were ſuſtain'd ſo many Conſtellations, ſo La-
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            borious, ſo Greedy, both Day and Night, as
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            well in their Feeding as Working. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s485" xml:space="preserve">Thus alſo
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            Lucan Sings,</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head35" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Necnon Oceano paſci phæbumque polumq;
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          Gredimus.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s486" xml:space="preserve">Unto theſe Ptolomy alſo, that Learn'd Egyp-
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            tian, ſeem'd to agree, when he affirms that
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            the Body of the Moon is moiſter, and cooler
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            than any of the other Planets, by reaſon of
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            the Earthly Vapours that are exhaled unto it.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s487" xml:space="preserve">You ſee theſe Ancients thought the Heavens
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            to be ſo far from this imagined Incorruptibili-
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            ty, that rather like the weakeſt Bodies they
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            ſtood in need of ſome continual Nouriſhment,
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            without which they could not ſubſiſt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s489" xml:space="preserve">But Ariſtotle and his Followers were ſo far
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              l. 1. c. 3.</note>
            from this, that they thought thoſe Glorious
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            Bodies could not contain within them any ſuch
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            Principles as might make them lyable to the
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            leaſt Change or Corruption; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s490" xml:space="preserve">and their Chief
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            Reaſon was, becauſe we could not in ſo long
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            a ſpace diſcern any alteration amongſt them;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s491" xml:space="preserve">But to this I anſwer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s493" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
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