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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164That the Moon may be a World.
2. Groſs abſurdities have been entertain’d
by general Opinion.
I ſhall give an Inſtance of each, that ſo I
may the better prepare the Reader to conſider
things without a Prejudice, when he ſhall ſee
that the common Oppoſition againſt this which
I affirm, cannot any way derogate from its
Truth.
1. Other Truths have been formerly accoun-
ted as ridiculous as this.
I ſhall ſpecifie that
of the Antipodes, which have been denyed,
and laught at by many wiſe Men and great
Scholars, ſuch as were Herodotus, Chryſoſtom,
11Vid. Foſeph.
Acaſto de
nat. novi
Grbis lib. 1.
cap. 1.
Auſtin, Lactantius, the Venerable Bede, Lucre-
tius the Poet, Procopius, and the Voluminous
Abulenſis, together with all thoſe Fathers or
other Authors who denyed the roundneſs of
the Heavens.
Herodotus counted it ſo horri-
ble abſurdity, that he could not forbear laugh-
ing to think of it.
Γελῶ δρῶο γῆς {πρι}ύδ(ου}ς γ{ρἀ} ψαν-
τας, {πο}λλ{οὺ}ς ἤδη {καὶ} {οὐ} δένα νόον ἔ{χο}ντας {ὀξ}ηγ{οα} {μέν}ον ὂι
’Ωκεαοόντε ρεόντα γ{ρά} Φ{ου}σι, πέ{ρι}ξ τ{ὴν} τε γ{ὴν} ἐ{οῦ}οαν
κυκλοτ ερέα ὤς \’δπὸ τόρν{ου}.
‘I cannot chooſe but laugh
‘(ſaith he) to ſee ſo many Men venture to de-
‘ſcribe the Earths Compaſs, relating thoſe
‘things that are without Senſe, as that the Sea
‘flows about the World, and that the Earth it
‘ſelf is as round as an Orb.
But this great Ig-
norance is not ſo much to be admired in him,
as in thoſe Learneder Men of later times, when
all Sciences began to flouriſh in the World.
Such were St. Chryſoſtome, who in his 14 Ho-
mily upon the Hebrews, doth make a challenge
to any Man that ſhall dare to defend, that the
Heavens are Round, and not rather as a Tent.

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