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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135123That the Moon may be a World.
Unto this I may add another Teſtimony of
Bapt
.
Giſatus, as he is quoted by Nicrembergi-
us
, grounded upon an Obſervation taken 23
Years
after this of Mæſlin, and Writ to this
Euſeb
.
Nieremberg. in a Letter by that diligent
and
judicious Aſtronomer.
The Words of it
run
thus;
Et quidem in eclipſi nuper a ſolari quæ
11Hiſt. Nat.
l
. 2. c. II.
fuit ipſo de natali Ghriſti, obſervavi clari in luna
ſoli
ſuppoſita, quidpiam quod valde probat id ipſum
quod
Gometæ quoque &
maculæ ſolares urgent, nem-
pe
cælum non eſſe á tenuitate &
variationibus ae-
ris
exemptum;
nam circalunam adverti eſſe ſphæ-
ram
ſeu orbem quendam vaporoſum, non ſecus at-
que
circum terram, adeoque ſicut ex terra in ali-
quam
uſque ſphæram vapores &
exhalationes expi-
rant
, ita quoque ex luna.
‘In that late Solary
Eclipſe which happened on Chriſtmas Day,
when the Moon was juſt under the Sun, I
plainly diſcern’d that in her, which may clear-
ly confirm what the Comets and Suns Spots
do ſeem to prove, viz.
that the Heavens are
not ſolid, nor freed from thoſe Changes which
our Air is liable unto;
for, about the Moon
I perceiv’d ſuch an Orb, a vaporous Air, as
that is which doth encompaſs our Earth;
and
as Vapours and Exhalations are raiſed from
our Earth into this Air, ſo are they alſo from
the Moon.

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