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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head81" xml:space="preserve">PROP. VII.</head>
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            of this Truth, are implied in the con-
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            veniences of this Hypotheſis above any other;
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            Appearances of the Heavens, into more eaſy
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            and natural Cauſes.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4164" xml:space="preserve">Hence will the Frame of Nature be freed
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            from that deformity, which it has accord-
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            ing to the Syſteme of Tycho: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4165" xml:space="preserve">who though he
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            make the Sun to be in the midſt of the Pla-
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            nets, yet, without any good Reaſon, denies
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            it to be in the midſt of the fixed Stars; </s>
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            the Planets, which are ſuch eminent parts of
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            the World, ſhould be appointed to move
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            about a diſtinct Centre of their own, which
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            was beſide that of the Univerſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4168" xml:space="preserve">Hence likewife are we freed from many of
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            thoſe Inconveniences in the Hypotheſis of
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            Ptolomy, who ſuppoſed in the Heavens, Epi-
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            cycles and Eccentricks, and other Orbs, which
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            he calls the Deferents of the Apoge and the
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            Perige. </s>
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            Engine of the World, had been put unto
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            ufe of Wheels and Screws, and </s>
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