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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            being placed where the Head of the other is,
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            and ſo two other Men croſs them, yet all theſe
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            Men thus ſituated according to this Opinion,
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            ſhould ſtand upright, and many other ſuch groſs
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            conſequences would follow (ſaith he) which a
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            falſe Imagination is not able to fancy as poſſi-
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            ble. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s175" xml:space="preserve">Upon which Conſiderations, Bede alſo
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            denies the being of any Antipodes, Neque enim
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-01" xlink:href="note-0018-01a" xml:space="preserve">De ratione
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              temporum.
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              Cap. 32.</note>
            Antipodarum ullatenus fabulis accommodandus aſ-
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            ſenſus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s176" xml:space="preserve">‘Nor ſhould we any longer aſſent to the
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            ‘Fable of Antipodes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s177" xml:space="preserve">So alſo Lucretius the
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            Poet ſpeaking of the ſame Subject, ſays,</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head24" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Sed vanus ſtolidis hæc omnia finxerit Error.</head>
          <note position="left" xml:space="preserve">De nat. re-
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          rum, Lib. 1</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s178" xml:space="preserve">That ſome idle fancy feigned theſe, for Fools
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            to believe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s179" xml:space="preserve">Of this Opinion was Procopius
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            Gazæus, but he was perſwaded to it by ano-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-03" xlink:href="note-0018-03a" xml:space="preserve">Coment. in
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              1. Cap. Gen.</note>
            ther kind of Reaſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s180" xml:space="preserve">for he thought that all
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            the Earth under us was ſunk into the Water,
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            according to the ſaying of the Pſalmiſt, He
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-04" xlink:href="note-0018-04a" xml:space="preserve">Pſal. 24. 2.</note>
            hath founded the Earth upon the Seas; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s181" xml:space="preserve">and
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            therefore he accounted it not inhabited by any.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s182" xml:space="preserve">Nay, Toſtatus a Man of later Years, and gene-
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            ral Learning, doth alſo confidently deny that
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            there are any ſuch Antipodes, though the
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            Reaſon which he urges for it, be not ſo abſurd
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-05" xlink:href="note-0018-05a" xml:space="preserve">Comment, in
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              1. Geniſ.</note>
            as the former; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s183" xml:space="preserve">For the Apoſtles, ſaith he, tra-
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            velled through the whole habitable World,
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            but they never paſſed the Equinoctial; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s184" xml:space="preserve">and if
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            you anſwer that they are ſaid to go through
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            all the Earth, becauſe they went through all
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            the known World, he replies, that this is not
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            ſufficient, ſince Chriſt would have all Men to
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            be ſaved, and come to the Knowledge of his
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0018-06" xlink:href="note-0018-06a" xml:space="preserve">1 Tim. 2. 4.</note>
            Truth, and therefore it is requiſite that </s>
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