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.
[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.
[31.] Necnon Oceano paſci phæbumque polumq; Gredimus.
[32.] PROP. IV. That the Moon is a Solid, Compacted, Opacous Body.
[33.] PROP. V. That the Moon hath not any Light of her own.
[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.
[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.
[36.] PROP. VIII. The Spots repeſent the Sea, and the brighter parts the Land.
[37.] PROP. IX. That there are high Mountains, deep Vallies, and ſpacious Plains in the Body of the Moon.
[38.] PROP. X. That there is an Atmo-ſphæra, or an Orb of groſs, Vaporous Air, immediately encompaſſing the body of the Moon.
[39.] PROP. XI. That as their World is our Moon, ſo our World is their Moon.
[40.] Provehimur portu, terræque urbeſque recedunt.
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            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1856" xml:space="preserve">aerea lunæ, & </s>
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            conſimiliter de aliis ſtellarum regionibus, ſuſpican-
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            tes nullam habitationibus carere, quaſi tot ſint par-
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            tes particulares mundiales unius aniverſi, quot ſunt
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            ſtellæ quærum non eſt numerus, niſi apud eum qui
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            omnia in numero creavit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1860" xml:space="preserve">‘We may conjecture (ſaith he) the Inhabi-
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            ‘ tants of the Sun are like to the nature of that
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            ‘ Planet, more clear and bright, more intel-
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            ‘ lectual than thoſe in the Moon where they
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            ‘ are nearer to the Nature of that duller Pla-
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            ‘ net, and thoſe of the Earth being more groſs
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            and material than either, ſo that theſe Intelle-
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            ‘ ctual Natures in the Sun, are more form than
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            ‘ matter, thoſe in the Earth more matter than
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            ‘ form, and thoſe in the Moon betwixt both.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1861" xml:space="preserve">‘ This we may gueſs from the fiery influence
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            ‘ of the Sun, the watery and aerous influence
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            ‘ of the Moon, as alſo the material Heavineſs
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            ‘ of the Earth. </s>
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            ‘ is it with the Regions of the-other Stars; </s>
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            ‘ we conjecture that none of them are without
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            ‘ Inhabitants, but that there are ſo many par-
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            ‘ ticular Worlds and parts of this one Univerſe,
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            ‘ as there are Stars, which are innumerable, un-
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            ‘ leſs it be to him who Created all things in
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1865" xml:space="preserve">For he held that the Stars were not all in
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            one equal Orb as we commonly ſuppoſe; </s>
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            that ſome were ſar higher than others, which
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            made them appear leſs; </s>
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            were ſo far above any of theſe, that they were
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            (as I conceive) hath not any great probability
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