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

Table of contents

< >
[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.
< >
page |< < (86) of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div116" type="section" level="1" n="37">
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1247" xml:space="preserve">
              <pb o="86" file="0098" n="98" rhead="That the Moon may be a World."/>
            & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1248" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1249" xml:space="preserve">But I reply, if the Superficies betwixt
              <lb/>
            theſe two enlightened parts, remain dark be-
              <lb/>
            cauſe of its Opacity, then would it always be
              <lb/>
            dark, and the Sun could not make it partake of
              <lb/>
            Light, more than it could of Perſpicuity. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1250" xml:space="preserve">But
              <lb/>
            this contradicts all Experience, as you may ſee
              <lb/>
            in Galilæus, who affirms, that when the Sun
              <lb/>
            comes nearer to his Oppoſition, then, that
              <lb/>
            which is betwixt them both, is enlightned as
              <lb/>
            well as either. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1251" xml:space="preserve">Nay, this oppoſes his own Eye-
              <lb/>
            witheſs, for he confeſſes himſelf, that he ſaw this
              <lb/>
            by the glaſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1252" xml:space="preserve">He had ſaid before, that he came
              <lb/>
            to ſee thoſe ſtrange Sights diſcovered by Gali-
              <lb/>
            læus his glaſs, with an intent of Contradiction,
              <lb/>
            and you may read that confirmed in the weak-
              <lb/>
            neſs of this anſwer, which rather bewrays an
              <lb/>
            Obſtinate, then a perſwaded Will; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1253" xml:space="preserve">for other-
              <lb/>
            wiſe ſure he would never have undertook to
              <lb/>
            have deſtroyed ſuch certain proofs with ſo
              <lb/>
            groundleſs a Fancy.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1254" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1255" xml:space="preserve">That Inſtance of Galilæus, would have been
              <lb/>
              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0098-01" xlink:href="note-0098-01a" xml:space="preserve">Syſt. mundi
                <lb/>
              eoll. 1.</note>
            a better Evaſion, had this Author been Acquan-
              <lb/>
            ted with it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1256" xml:space="preserve">who might then have compared
              <lb/>
            the Moon to that which we call Mother of
              <lb/>
            Pearl, which though it be moſt Exactly Poliſhed
              <lb/>
            in the Superficies of it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1257" xml:space="preserve">yet will ſeem unto the
              <lb/>
            Eye as if there were divers Swellings and Ri-
              <lb/>
            ſings in its ſeveral parts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1258" xml:space="preserve">But yet this neither
              <lb/>
            would not well have ſhifted the Experiment
              <lb/>
            of the Perſpective. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1259" xml:space="preserve">For theſe rugged parts do
              <lb/>
            not only appear upon one ſide of the Moon, but
              <lb/>
            as the Sun does turn about in Divers Places, ſo
              <lb/>
            do they alſo caſt their ſhadow. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1260" xml:space="preserve">When theMoon
              <lb/>
            is in her Increaſe, then do they caſt their ſha-
              <lb/>
            dows to the Eaſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1261" xml:space="preserve">When ſhe is in the </s>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>