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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[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.
[41.] PROP. XII.
[42.] PROP. XIII.
[43.] PROP. XIV.
[44.] FINIS.
[45.] A DISCOURSE Concerning a Rem Planet. Tending to prove That ’tis probable our EARTH is one of the PLANETS. The Second Book. By John Wilkins, late L. Biſhop of Cheſter.
[46.] LONDON: Printed by J. D. for John Gellibrand, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. M.DC.LXXXIV.
[47.] To the Reader.
[48.] PROP. I.
[49.] PROP. II.
[50.] PROP. III.
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143130That the Moon may be a World. makes them either altogether unfit to remain
there, where they are, or elſe keeps them long
ere they can put off their Souls.
Thus you ſee
Plutarch’s Opinion concerning the Inhabitants
and Neighbours of the Moon, which (accor-
ding to the manner of the Academicks) he de-
livers in a third Perſon;
you ſee he makes
that Planet an inferiour kind of Heaven,
and though he differ in many Circumſtan-
ces, yet doth he ceſcribe it to be ſome ſuch
place as we ſuppoſe Paradiſe to be.
You ſee
likewiſe his Opinion concerning the place
of the damned Spirits, that it is in the middle
Region of the Air;
and in neither of theſe is
he ſingular, but ſome more late and Orthodox
Writers have agreed with him.
As for the
place of Hell, many think it may be in the Air,
as well as any where elſe.
True indeed, St. Auſtin affirms that this
11De Civit.
Dei. l. 22.
c. 16.
place cannot be diſcover’d;
but others there
are who can ſhew the Situation of it out of
Scripture;
ſome holding it to be in another
World without this, becauſe our Saviour calls
it {Χomi2;
}τ{ος} {ὀξ}ωτι{ρο}υ outward darkneſs. But the
22Mat. 25.
30.
moſt will have it placed towards the Centre
of our Earth, becauſe ’tis ſaid, Chriſt deſcen-
ded into the lower parts of the Earth;
and
33Eph. 4. 9. ſome of theſe are ſo confident, that this is its
Situation, that they can deſcribe you its big-
neſs alſo, and of what Capacity it is.
Francis
Ribera in his Comment on the Revelations,
ſpeaking of thoſe Words, where ’tis ſaid, that
44Rev.14.20. the blood went out of the Wine-preſs, even unto the
Horſes Bridles by the ſpace of one Thouſand Six
Hundred Furlongs, interprets them to be

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