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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[11.] PROP. V.
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[12.] PROP. VI.
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[13.] PROP. VII.
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[14.] PROP. VIII.
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[15.] PROP. IX.
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[16.] PROP. X.
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[17.] PROP. XI.
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[18.] PROP. XII.
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[19.] PROP. XIII.
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[20.] PROP. XIV.
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[21.] The Firſt Book. That the MOON May be a WORLD. The Firſt Propoſition, by way of Preface.
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[22.] Sed vanus ſtolidis hæc omnia finxerit Error.
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[23.] Solis lunæq; labores.
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[24.] Cum fruſtra reſonant æra auxiliaria Lunæ.
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[25.] Una laboranti poterit ſuccerrere Lunæ.
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[26.] Gantus & è cælo poſſunt deducere Lunam.
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[27.] Cantus & ſi curru lunam deducere tentant, Et facerent, ſi non æra repulſa ſonant.
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[28.] PROP. II. That a Plurality of Worlds doth not contradict any Principle of Reaſon or Faith.
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[29.] Æſtuas infelix auguſto limite mundi.
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[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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[31.] Necnon Oceano paſci phæbumque polumq; Gredimus.
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[32.] PROP. IV. That the Moon is a Solid, Compacted, Opacous Body.
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[33.] PROP. V. That the Moon hath not any Light of her own.
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[34.] PROP. VI. That there is a World in the Moon, bath been the direct Opinion of many Ancient, with ſome Modern Mathematicians, and may probably de deduc’d from the Tenents of others.
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[35.] PROP. VII. That thoſe Spots and brighter parts, which by our ſight may be diſtinguiſhed in the Moon, do ſhew the difference betwixt the Sea and Land, in that other World.
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[36.] PROP. VIII. The Spots repeſent the Sea, and the brighter parts the Land.
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[37.] PROP. IX. That there are high Mountains, deep Vallies, and ſpacious Plains in the Body of the Moon.
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[38.] PROP. X. That there is an Atmo-ſphæra, or an Orb of groſs, Vaporous Air, immediately encompaſſing the body of the Moon.
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[39.] PROP. XI. That as their World is our Moon, ſo our World is their Moon.
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[40.] Provehimur portu, terræque urbeſque recedunt.
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1844That the Earth may be a Planet. to the Opinion of any Man, as to think what
ever he ſays to be infallible. We muſt la-
bour to find out what things are in them-
ſelves by our own experience, and a through
examination of their natures, not what an-
other ſays of them. And if in ſuch an im-
partial enquiry, we chance to light upon a
new way, and that which is beſides the com-
mon rode, this is neither our fault, nor our
unhappineſs.
Not our fault, becauſe it did not ariſe from
Singularity or Affectation. Not our unhap-
pineſs, becauſe it is rather a Priviledge to be
the firſt in finding out ſuch Truths, as are not
diſcernable to every common eye. If No-
velty ſhould always be rejected, neither
would Arts have arrived to that perfection
wherein now we enjoy them, nor could we
ever hope for any future Reformation:
Though all Truth be in it ſelf Eternal; yet
in reſpect of Mens Opinions, there is ſcarce
any ſo antient, but had a beginning, and was
once accounted a Novelty; and if for this
reaſon it had been condemned as an errour,
what a general darkneſs and ignorance
would then have been in the World, in com-
pariſon of that light which now abounds;
according to that of the Poet:
Quod ſi tam Antiquis Novitas inviſa 11 Horæt.
lib. 2. ep. 1. Quam nobis, quid nunc eſſet vetus aut quid habe-
Quodlegerent tereretq; viritim publicus uſus? (ret,
If our Forefathers had but hated thus,
All that were new, what had been old to us?

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