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 |< < (88) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div116" type="section" level="1" n="37">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1278" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="88" file="0100" n="100" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
            of the Hegheſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1279" xml:space="preserve">Nay, Solinus (whom I ſhould
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0100-01" xlink:href="note-0100-01a" xml:space="preserve">Pely. biſtor.
                <lb/>
              6. 21.</note>
            rather believe in this kind) affirms, that this
              <lb/>
            Mountain gives his ſhadow quite over the Sea,
              <lb/>
            from Macedon to the Iſle of Lemnos, which is
              <lb/>
            700 Furlongs, or 84 Miles, and yet according
              <lb/>
            to the common Reckoning, it doth ſcarce reach
              <lb/>
            4 Miles up wards, in its Perpendicular height.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1280" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1281" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1282" xml:space="preserve">I affirm, that there are very high Moun-
              <lb/>
            tains in the Moon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1283" xml:space="preserve">Keplar and Galilæus think,
              <lb/>
            that they are higher than any which are upon
              <lb/>
            our Earth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1284" xml:space="preserve">But I am not of their Opinion in this,
              <lb/>
            becauſe I ſuppoſe they go upon a falſe Ground,
              <lb/>
            whilſt they Conceive, that the higheſt Moun-
              <lb/>
            tain upon the Earth is not above a Mile Per-
              <lb/>
            pendicular.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1285" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1286" xml:space="preserve">Whereas ’tis the common Opinion, and found
              <lb/>
            true enough by Obſervation, that Olympus,
              <lb/>
            Atlas, Taurus and Emus, with many others, are
              <lb/>
            much above this height. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1287" xml:space="preserve">Tenariffa in the
              <lb/>
            Canary Iſlands, is commonly related to be
              <lb/>
            above 8 Miles Perpendicular, and about this
              <lb/>
            height (ſay ſome) is the Mount Perjacaca in
              <lb/>
            America. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1288" xml:space="preserve">Sir Walter Rawleigh ſeems to
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0100-02" xlink:href="note-0100-02a" xml:space="preserve">Hiſt. l.1.c.
                <lb/>
              7. Sect. 11.
                <lb/>
              Meteor. l.
                <lb/>
              I. c. II.</note>
            that the higheſt of theſe is near 30 Miles up-
              <lb/>
            right. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1289" xml:space="preserve">nay, Ariſtotle ſpeaking of Gaucaſus in
              <lb/>
            Aſia, affirins it to be Viſible for 560 Miles, as
              <lb/>
            ſome Interpreters find by Computation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1290" xml:space="preserve">from
              <lb/>
            which it will follow, that it was 78 Miles Per-
              <lb/>
            pendicularly high, as you may ſee confirm'd by
              <lb/>
            Facobus Mazonius, and out of him in Blancanus
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0100-03" xlink:href="note-0100-03a" xml:space="preserve">Comparatio
                <lb/>
              Ariſt. cum.
                <lb/>
              Platone.
                <lb/>
              Sect 3.c.5.
                <lb/>
              Expoſt. in
                <lb/>
              loc Math.
                <lb/>
              Arlis loc.
                <lb/>
              148.</note>
            the Jeſuit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1291" xml:space="preserve">But this Deviates from the truth,
              <lb/>
            more in Exceſs, than the other doth in defect.
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1292" xml:space="preserve">However, though theſe in the Moon are
              <lb/>
            not ſo high asſome amongſt us; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1293" xml:space="preserve">yet certain
              <lb/>
            it is they are of a great height, and ſome </s>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>