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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[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.
[51.] PROP. IV.
[52.] PROP. V.
[53.] PROP. VI.
[54.] PROP. VII. PROP. VIII. PROP. IX. PROP. X.
[55.] That the EARTH May be a PLANET. PROP. I.
[56.] PROP. II.
[57.] PROP. III.
[58.] PROP. IV.
[59.] PROP. V. That the Scripture, in its proper conſtru-ction, does not any where affirm the Immobility of the Earth.
[60.] PROP. VI. That there is not any Argument from the Words of Scripture, Principles of Na-ture, or Obſervations in Aſtronomy, which can ſuſſiciently evidence the Earth to be in the Gentre of the Uni-verſe.
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6048That the Moon may be a World. Nor may we think that the Earth's Shadow
can Cloud the proper Light of the Moon from
Appearing, or take away any thing from her
Inherent Brightneſs;
for this were to think a
Shadow to be a Body, an Opinion altogether
misbecoming a Philoſopher, as Tycho grants
in the fore-cited place, Nec umbra terrœ corpo-
reum quid eſt, aut denſa aliqua ſubſtantia, ut Lu-
nœ lumen obtenebrare poſſit, atque id viſui noſtro
prœripere, ſed eſt quœdam privatio luminis ſola-
ris, ob interpoſitum opacum corpus terrœ.
Nor
is the Earth's ſhadow any Corporal thing,
or thick ſubſtance, that it can Cloud the
Moons Brightneſs, or take it away from our
Sight;
but it is a meer privation of the Suns
Light by reaſon of her Interpoſition of the
Earth's Opacous Body.
3 If ſhe had any Light of her own, then
that would in it ſelf be either ſuch a ruddy
Brightneſs as appears in the Eclipſes, or elſe
ſuch a Leaden Duskiſh Light as we ſee in the
Darker parts of her Body, when ſhe is a little
paſt the Conjunction.
(That it muſt be one
of theſe, may follow from the Oppoſite Ar-
guments) but it is neither of theſe;
therefore
ſhe hath none of her own.
1. ’Tis not ſuch a ruddy Light as appears in
Eclipſes;
for then why can we not ſee the
like redneſs, when we may diſcern the Ob-
ſcure parts of the Moon?
You will ſay, perhaps, that then the near-
neſs of that greater Light takes away that Ap-
pearance.
I Reply, this cannot be; for then why does
Mars ſhine with his wonted Redneſs,

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