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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            ters do hang there after ſuch a ſtupendious in-
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            conceivable manner; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2358" xml:space="preserve">which ſeems likewiſe to
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            be favoured by Scripture, where ’tis mentio-
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            ned as a great Argument of Gods Omnipoten-
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            cy, that he holds up the Clouds from falling.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2359" xml:space="preserve">He binds up the Waters in his thick Glouds, and
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0170-01" xlink:href="note-0170-01a" xml:space="preserve">Job. 26. 8.</note>
            the Glouds is not rent under them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2361" xml:space="preserve">But that which unto me ſeems full ſatisfacti-
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            on againſt this doubt, is this Conſideration;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2362" xml:space="preserve">that the natural vigor, whereby the Earth doth
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            attract denſe bodies unto it, is leſs efficacious
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            at a diſtance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2363" xml:space="preserve">and therefore a Body of leſs
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            denſity, which is near unto it, as ſuppoſe, this
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            thin Air wherein we breath, may naturally be
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            lower in its Scituation, than another of a grea-
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            ter condenſity that is farther off; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2364" xml:space="preserve">as ſuppoſe,
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            the Clouds in the ſecond Region. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2365" xml:space="preserve">And tho
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            the one be abſolutely, and in it ſelf more fit
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            for this Motion of deſcent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2366" xml:space="preserve">yet, by reaſon of
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            its diſtance, the Earths magnetical Virtue can-
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            not ſo powerfully work upon it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2368" xml:space="preserve">As for that Relation of Ariſtotle; </s>
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            true; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2370" xml:space="preserve">yet it does not prove this Air to be al-
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            together impoſſible, ſince moiſtned Spunges
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            might help us againſt its thinneſs: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2371" xml:space="preserve">but ’tis more
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            likely, that he took it upon Truſt, as he did
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            ſome other Relations concerning the height of
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            of the Mountains, wherein ’tis evident, that
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            he was groſly miſtaken. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2372" xml:space="preserve">As where he tells us
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            of Gaucaſus, that it caſt its ſhadow 560 Miles.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2375" xml:space="preserve">If it be here enquired; </s>
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            may be conjectur’d, for our aſcending beyond
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            the Sphere of the Earths Magnetical Vigor.</s>
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