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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2301" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2302" xml:space="preserve">Another way to find the height of this Va-
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            porous Air, is, by knowing the difſerence of
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            Altitude, which it cauſeth, in refracting the
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2303" xml:space="preserve">And from
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            this Obſervation alſo, it is uſually concluded to
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            be about two or three miles high.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2305" xml:space="preserve">But now you muſt not conceive, as if the
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            Orb of Magnetical Vigor, were bounded in
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            an exact Superficies, or, as if it did equally
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            hold out juſt to ſuch a determinate Line, and
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2306" xml:space="preserve">But as it hath been ſaid of the firſt
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            Region, which is there terminated, where the
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            Heat of Reflection does begin to Languiſh: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2307" xml:space="preserve">So
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            likewiſe is it probable, that this Magnetical
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            Vigor does remit of its degrees proportionably
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            to its diſtance from the Earth, which is the cauſe
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            of it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2308" xml:space="preserve">and therefore though the thicker Clouds
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            may be elevated no higher, yet this Orb may
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            be continued in weaker degrees a little beyond
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2309" xml:space="preserve">We will ſuppoſe it (which in all like-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2310" xml:space="preserve">So that you ſee the former Theſis remains
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            any other means get Twenty Miles upwards, it
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2312" xml:space="preserve">But it may be again Objected: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2313" xml:space="preserve">Tho’ all this
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2314" xml:space="preserve">though there were ſuch an Orb of
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2315" xml:space="preserve">and tho’ the heavineſs of our Bodies could not
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            hinder our paſſage, through the vaſt ſpaces of
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            the Æthereal Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2316" xml:space="preserve">yet thoſe two other Impe-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2318" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2319" xml:space="preserve">The extream coldneſs of that Air. </s>
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