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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            be conveyed ſo far, as there to be repreſented
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            unto us, at ſuch a diſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s972" xml:space="preserve">But ’tis common-
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            ly related of Pythagor as, that he by writing
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            what he pleas'd in a Glaſs, by the reflexion of
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            the ſame Species, would make thoſe Letters to
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            appear in the Circle of the Moon, where they
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            ſhould be Legible by any other, who might
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            at that time be ſome Miles diſtant from him.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s973" xml:space="preserve"> . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s974" xml:space="preserve">Agrippa affirms this to be poſſible,
              <note symbol="a" position="right" xlink:label="note-0075-01" xlink:href="note-0075-01a" xml:space="preserve">Occulta.
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              Philoſ. l. I.
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              cap. 6.</note>
            the way of performing it not unknown to him-
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            ſelf, with ſome others in his time. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s975" xml:space="preserve">It may be
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            that Biſhop Goodwine did by the like means
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            perform thoſe ſtrange Concluſions, which he
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            profeſſes in his Nuncius inanimatus, where he
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            pretends, that he can inform his Friends of
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            what he pleaſes, though they be an hundred
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            Miles diſtant, forte etiam, vel milliare milleſi-
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            mum, (they are his own Words) and perhaps
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            a Thouſand, and all this in a little ſpace, quick-
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            er than the Sun can move.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s977" xml:space="preserve">Now, what conveyance there ſhould be, for
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            ſo ſpeedy a paſſage, I cannot conceive, unleſs
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            it be carried with the light, than which we
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            know not any thing quicker; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s978" xml:space="preserve">But of this only
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            by the way; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s979" xml:space="preserve">however, whether thoſe Ima-
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            ges can be repreſented ſo or not, yet certain it
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            is, thoſe ſpots are not ſuch Repreſentations.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s980" xml:space="preserve">Some think, that when God had at firſt Crea. </s>
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            ted too much Earth, to make a perfect Globe,
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            not knowing well where to beſtow the reſt, he
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            placed it in the Moon, which ever ſince hath
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            ſo darkned it in ſome parts; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s982" xml:space="preserve">but the impiety
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            of this is ſufficient confutation, ſince it ſo much
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            detracts from the Divine Power and Wiſ-
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            dom.</s>
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