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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1870" xml:space="preserve">The Prieſt of Saturn relating to Plutarch
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            (as he feigns it) the nature of theſe Selenites,
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            told him, they were of divers diſpoſitions,
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            ſome deſiring to live in the lower parts of the
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            Moon, where they might look downwards
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            upon us, while others were more ſurely moun-
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            ted aloft, all of them ſhining like the Rays of
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            the Sun, and as being Victorious, are Crow-
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            ned with Garlands made with the Wings of
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            Euſtathia or Gonſtancie.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1872" xml:space="preserve">It hath been the Opinion amongſt ſome of
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            the Ancients, that their Heavens and Elyſian
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            Fields were in the Moon where the Air is moſt
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            quiet and pure. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1873" xml:space="preserve">Thus Socrates, thus Plato, with
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              l. 3. c. 19</note>
            his Followers, did eſteem this to be the place
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            where thoſe purer Souls inhabit, who are
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            freed from the Sepulcher, and Contagion of
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            the Body: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1874" xml:space="preserve">And by the Fable of Geres, con-
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            tinually wandring in ſearch of her Daughter
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            Proſerpina, is meant nothing elſe but the long-
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            ing deſire of Men, who live upon Geres Earth,
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            to attain a place in Proſerpina, the Moon Hea-
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            ven.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1876" xml:space="preserve">Plutarch alſo ſeems to aſſent unto this; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1877" xml:space="preserve">but
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            he thinks moreover, that there are two places
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            of happineſs anſwerable to thoſe two parts
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            which he fancies to remain of a Man when he
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            is Dead, the Soul and the Underſtanding; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1878" xml:space="preserve">the
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            Soul he thinks is made of the Moon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1879" xml:space="preserve">and as
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            our Bodies do ſo proceed from the Duſt of this
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            Earth, that they ſhall return to it hereafter;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1880" xml:space="preserve">ſo our Souls were generated out of that Pla-
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            net, and ſhall be reſolved into it again; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1881" xml:space="preserve">where-
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            as the underſtanding ſhall aſcend unto the Sun,
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            out of which it was made, where it ſhall </s>
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