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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6250That the Moon may be a World. in his Preface to his Treatiſe concerning the
Auſtriaca ſydera;
Luna, Venus, & Mercurius,
terreſtris &
humidœ ſunt ſubſtati ideoquœ de ſuo
non lucere, ſicut nec terra.
The Moon, Venus,
and Mercury, ſaith he, are of an Earthly and
moiſt Subſtance, and therefore have no more
Light of their own, than the Earth hath.
Nay,
ſome there are, who think (though without
Ground) that all the other Stars do receive that
Light whereby they appear Viſible to us, from
the Sun:
So Ptolomy, Iſidore Iſpalenſis, 11Originum
l. 3. c. 60.
Albertus Magnus, and Bede;
much more then muſt the Moon ſhine with a borrowed
22D; Cœlo.
1. 2:
Light.
But enough of this. I have now ſufficient-
33Deratio-
ne tempor.
c. 4.
ly ſhewed what at the firſt I promis'd, that
this Light is not proper to the Moon.
It re-
44Item Plinie
lib. 2. ca. 6.
mains in the next place, that I tell you the true
Reaſon of it.
And here I think ’tis probable
55Hugo de
Sancto Vi-
ctore.
that the Light which appears in the Moon at
the Eclipſes, is nothing elſe but the ſecond
66Annot. in
Gen. 6.
Species of the Suns Rayes which paſs through
the ſhadow into her Body:
and from a mix-
ture of this ſecond Light with the Shadow
ariſes that redneſs which at ſome times appears
unto us.
I may call it Lumen crepuſculinum,
the Aurora of the Moon, or ſuch a kind of
Bluſhing Light, that the Sun cauſes when it
is near its riſing, when he beſtows ſome ſmall
Light upon the thicker Vapours.
Thus we
ſee commonly the Sun being in the Horizon,
and the Reflexion growing Weak, how his
Beams make the Waters appear very Red.
The Moabites in Fehoram's time, when they
772 King. 3.
22.
Roſe Early in the Morning, and beheld

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