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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25676That the Earth may be a Planet. but declinare, or vacillare, to decline or ſlip
aſide from its natural courſe.
Thus it is
uſed by David, Pſal.
17. 5. where he prays,
Hold up my goings in thy Paths, ןטמגלב
that my Foot-ſteps ſlide not.
He does
not mean that his feet ſhould not move.
So
Pſal.
121. 3. He will not ſuffer thy foot to be
moved.
Thus likewiſe, Pſal. 16. 8. Becauſe
the Lord is at my right band, I ſhall not be
moved:
which laſt place is tranſlated in the
New Teſtament, by the Greek word {οα-
11Act.2.25. λευω, which ſignifies fluctuare, or vacillare,
to be ſhaken by ſuch an uncertain motion,
as the Waves of the Sea.
Now, as David's
feet may have their uſual motion, and yet
in this ſenſe be ſaid not to move, that is,
not to decline or ſlip aſide :
ſo neither can
the ſame phraſe, applied to the Earth, prove
it to be immovable.
Nor do I ſee any reaſon, why that of
Didacus Aſtunica, may not be truly aſſir-
22Comment.
an Job.
med, That we may prove the natural
motion of the Earth, from that place in
Job 6.
9. Qui commovet terram è loco ſuo,
as well as its reſt and immobility from
theſe.
From all which, it is very evident, that
each of theſe expreſſions, concerning the
founding or eſtabliſbing both of Heaven or
Earth, were not intended to ſhew the un-
movableneſs of either, but rather, to ma-
niſeſt the Power and Wiſdom of Provi-
dence, who had ſo ſetled theſe parts of

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