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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            ny of our Prodigies come to paſs, and the
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            People are willing to believe any thing, which
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            they may relate to others as a very ſtrange and
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            wonderful Event. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1122" xml:space="preserve">I doubt not but the Trojan
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            Palladium, the Roman Minerva, and our La-
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            dies Church at Loretto, with many ſacred Re-
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            liques preſerv'd by the Papiſts might drop
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            from the Moon as well as any of theſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1124" xml:space="preserve">But it may be again Objected, ſuppoſe there
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            were a Bullet ſhot up in that World, would
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            not the Moon run away from it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1125" xml:space="preserve">before it
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            could fall down, ſince the Motion of her Bo-
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            dy (being every day round our Earth) is far
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            ſwifter than the other, and ſo the Bullet muſt
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            be left behind, and at length fall down to us?
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1126" xml:space="preserve">To this I anſwer.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1128" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1129" xml:space="preserve">If a Bullet could be ſhot ſo far till it
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            it came to the Circumference of thoſe things
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            which belong to our Centre, then it would
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            fall down to us.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1131" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1132" xml:space="preserve">Though there were ſome Heavy Body
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            a great Height in that Air, yet would the Mo-
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            tion of that Magnetical Globe to which it did
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            belong by an attractive Virtue, ſtill hold it
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            within its convenient diſtance, whether their
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            Earth moved or ſtood ſtill, yet would the
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            ſame Violence caſt a Body from it equally far.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1133" xml:space="preserve">That I may the plainer expreſs my meaning,
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            I will ſet down this Diagram.</s>
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