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

Table of contents

< >
[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.
< >
page |< < (69) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div107" type="section" level="1" n="36">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1037" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="69" file="0081" n="81" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
            ſo much of the Beſpotted, as there is of the En-
              <lb/>
            lightned parts, wherefore ’tis Probable, that
              <lb/>
            there is no ſuch thing at all, or elſe, that the
              <lb/>
            Brighter parts are the Sea.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1038" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1039" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1040" xml:space="preserve">The Water, by Reaſon of the Smoothneſs
              <lb/>
            of its Superficies, ſeems better able to Reflect
              <lb/>
            the Sun-Beams than the Earth, which in moſt
              <lb/>
            Places is ſo full of Ruggedneſs of Graſs and
              <lb/>
            Trees, and ſuch like Impediments of Reflexion;
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1041" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, common Experience ſhews, that the
              <lb/>
            Water Shines with a greater and more Glori-
              <lb/>
            ous Brightneſs than the Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1042" xml:space="preserve">therefore it
              <lb/>
            ſhould ſeem that the Spots are the Earth, and
              <lb/>
            the Brighter parts the Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1043" xml:space="preserve">But to the Firſt
              <lb/>
            it may be Anſwered.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1044" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1045" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1046" xml:space="preserve">There is no great Probability in this
              <lb/>
            Conſequence, that becauſe ’tis ſo with us, there-
              <lb/>
            fore it muſt be ſo with the parts of the Moon,
              <lb/>
            for ſince there is ſuch a Difference betwixt
              <lb/>
            them in Divers other Reſpects, they may not
              <lb/>
            perhaps Agree in this.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1047" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1048" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1049" xml:space="preserve">That Aſſertion of Scaliger is not by all
              <lb/>
              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0081-01" xlink:href="note-0081-01a" xml:space="preserve">De Meteo.
                <lb/>
              ris. l. s. c. 1.
                <lb/>
              Art. 1.</note>
            granted for a Truth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1050" xml:space="preserve">Fromundus, with others,
              <lb/>
            think, that the Superficies of the Sea and Land,
              <lb/>
            in ſo much of the World as is already Diſcover-
              <lb/>
            ed, is equal, and of the ſame Extenſion.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1051" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1052" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1053" xml:space="preserve">The Orb of Thick and Vaporous Air
              <lb/>
            which incompaſſes theMoon, makes the Bright-
              <lb/>
            er parts of that Planet appear bigger than in
              <lb/>
            themſelves they are; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1054" xml:space="preserve">as I ſhall ſhew after-
              <lb/>
            wards.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1055" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1056" xml:space="preserve">To the Second it may be Anſwered, that
              <lb/>
            though the Water be of a ſmooth Superficies,
              <lb/>
            and ſo may ſeem moſt fit to Reverberate the
              <lb/>
            Light, yet becauſe ’tis of a Perſpicuous </s>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>