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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            tre of the Moon, than the outward Circumfe-
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            rence of the enlightned part. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1393" xml:space="preserve">But the Moon
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            being in the Full; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1394" xml:space="preserve">then does it ſeem to receive
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            theſe Stars within its Limb.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1396" xml:space="preserve">4. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1397" xml:space="preserve">Though the Moon do ſometimes appear
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            the firſt day of her Change, when ſo much as
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            appears enlightned, cannot be above the 80 part
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            of her Diameter, yet then will the Horns
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            ſeem at leaſt to be of a Fingers breadth in Ex-
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            tenſion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1398" xml:space="preserve"># Which could not be, unleſs the Air
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            about it were illuminated.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1400" xml:space="preserve">5. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1401" xml:space="preserve">’Tis obſerv'd, in the Solary Eclipſes, that
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            there is ſometimes a great Trepidation about
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            the Body of the Moon, from which we may
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            likewife argue an Atmo-ſphæra, ſince we can-
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            not well conceive what ſo probable a cauſe
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            there ſhould be of ſuch an appearance as this,
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            Quod radii Solares à vaporibus Lunam ambien-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0107-01" xlink:href="note-0107-01a" xml:space="preserve">Scheiner
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              Roſ. Vrſ. l.
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              4. pars. 2.
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            tibus fuerint interciſi, that the Sun beams were
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            broken and refracted by the Vapours that en-
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            compaſſed the Moon.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1403" xml:space="preserve">6. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1404" xml:space="preserve">I may add the like Argument taken from
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            another Obſervation, which will be eaſily try-
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            ed and granted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1405" xml:space="preserve">When the Sun is Eclipſed,
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            we diſcern the Moon as ſhe is in her own na-
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            tural bigneſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1406" xml:space="preserve">but then ſhe appears ſomewhat
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            leſs than when ſhe is in the Full, though ſhe
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            be in the ſame place of her ſuppos'd Excen-
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            trick and Epicycle; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1407" xml:space="preserve">and therefore Tycho hath
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            Calculated a Table for the Diameter of the di-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1408" xml:space="preserve">But now there is no reaſon
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            ſo probable, to ſalve this appearance, as to
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            place an Orb of thicker Air, near the Body
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            of that Planet, which may be enlightned by
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