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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            commonly ſee refuted in the Gommentators on
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            the Books de Gælo.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1000" xml:space="preserve">Vitellio and Reinoldus, Affirm the Spots to
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-01" xlink:href="note-0077-01a" xml:space="preserve">Opt. lib. 9.
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              comment.
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              in Pnrb.
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              pag. 164.</note>
            be the Thicker parts of the Moon, into which
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            the Sun cannot Infuſe much Light; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1001" xml:space="preserve">and this
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            (ſay they) is the Reaſon why in theSuns Eclip-
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            ſes, the Spots and Brighter parts, are ſtill in ſome
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            meaſure Diſtinguiſhed, becauſe the Sun Beams
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            are not able ſo well to Penetrate through thoſe
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            Thicker, as they may through the Thinner
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            parts of that Planet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1002" xml:space="preserve">Of this Opinion alſo was
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            Gæſar la GaHa, whoſe Words are theſe, The
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            ‘ Moon doth there appear Cleareſt, where ſhe
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            ‘ is Tranſpicious, not only through the Superfi-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0077-02" xlink:href="note-0077-02a" xml:space="preserve">Ex'qua par-
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              te luna eſt
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              tranſpicua
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              non ſolum
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              ſecundum
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              ſuperficiem
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              ſed etiam
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              ſecundum
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              ſubſtantiam
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              eatenus cla-
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              ra, ex qna
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              autem parte
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              opaca eſt
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              eatenus ob-
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              ſcura vide-
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              tur. De Phæ-
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              nom. eap. II.
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              Albert.
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              mag. de
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              Coævis
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              Q. 4. Art.
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              12.
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              Colleg. Con.</note>
            ‘ cies, but the Subſtance alſo, and there ſhe
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            ‘ ſeems ſpotted, where her Body is moſt Opa-
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            cous. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1003" xml:space="preserve">The ground of this his Aſſertion, was,
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            becauſe he thought the Moon did receive and
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            beſtow her Light by Illumination only, and not
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            at all by reſlexion; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1004" xml:space="preserve">but this, together with the
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            ſuppoſed Penetration of the Sun-Beams, and
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            the Perſpicuity of the Moons Body, I have
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            above Anſwered and Refuted.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1006" xml:space="preserve">The more Common and general Opinion, is,
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            that the Spots are the Thinner parts of the
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            Moon, which are leſs able to reflect the Beams
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            that they receive from the Sun, and this is moſt
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            agreeable to reaſon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1007" xml:space="preserve">for if the Stars are there-
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            fore brighteſt, becauſe they are Thicker, and
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            more Solid than their Orbs, then it will follow,
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            that thoſe parts of the Moon which have leſs
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            Light, have alſo leſs Thickneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1008" xml:space="preserve">It was the
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            Providence of Nature (ſay ſome) that ſo con-
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            trived that Planet to have theſe Spots within
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            it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1009" xml:space="preserve">for ſince that is neareſt to thoſe lower </s>
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