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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            ſider how any Rugged Body would appear, be-
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            ing enlightned, you would eaſily conceive that
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            it muſt neceſſarily ſeem under ſome ſuch Gib-
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            bous unequal form, as the Moon is here repre-
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            ſented. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1237" xml:space="preserve">Now for the Infallibility of theſe ap-
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            pearances, I ſhall refer the Reader to that which
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            hath been ſaid in the Sixth Propoſition.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1239" xml:space="preserve">But Gæſar la Galla affirms, that all theſe
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            appearances may conſiſt with a plainSuperficies,
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            if we ſuppoſe the parts of the Body to be ſome
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            of them Diaphanous, and ſome Opacous; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1240" xml:space="preserve">and
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            if you Object, that the Light which is convey'd
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            to any Diaphanous part in a plain Superficies,
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            muſt be by a continued Line, whereas here there
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            appear many brighter parts among the Obſcure
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            at ſome diſtance from the reſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1241" xml:space="preserve">To this he
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            anſwers, it may ariſe from ſome Secret Con-
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            veyances and Channels within her Body, that
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            do conſiſt of a more Diaphanous matter, which
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            being covered over with an Opacous Superfi-
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            cies, the Light paſſing through them, may break
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            out a great way off; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1242" xml:space="preserve">whereas the other parts
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            betwixt, may ſtill remain Dark. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1243" xml:space="preserve">Juſt as the
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            River Aretbuſa in Sicily, which runs under
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            ground for a great way, and afterwards breaks
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            out again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1244" xml:space="preserve">But becauſe this is one of the cheifeſt
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            Fancies, whereby he thinks he hath fully an-
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            ſwered the Argument of this Opininion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1245" xml:space="preserve">I will
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            therefore ſet down his anſwer in his own words
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            leſt the Reader might ſuſpect more in them,
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            than I have expreſſed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1246" xml:space="preserve">Non eſt impoſſible cæcos
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0097-01" xlink:href="note-0097-01a" xml:space="preserve">cap. II.</note>
            ductus diaphani & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1247" xml:space="preserve">perſpicui corporis, ſed opacd
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            ſuperficie protendi, uſque in diapbanam aliquam ex
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            profundoin ſuperficiem emergentem partem, per quos
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            ductus lume inlongo poſt modum interſticio </s>
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