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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            would become of that mutual Commerce,
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            whereby the World is now made but as one
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            Common-wealth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5490" xml:space="preserve">Voſq; </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5492" xml:space="preserve">timendo,
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            Decretum monſtratis iter, totiq; </s>
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            Legibus inventis hominum, commercia mundo.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5495" xml:space="preserve">’Tis you bright Stars, that in the fearful Sea
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            Does guide the Pilot through his purpos’d way.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5496" xml:space="preserve">’Tis your direction that doth Commerce give,
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            With all thoſe Men that thro’ the World do live.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5498" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5499" xml:space="preserve">As this Science is thus profitable in theſe
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            and many other reſpects: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5500" xml:space="preserve">ſo likewiſe is it
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            equally pleaſant. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5501" xml:space="preserve">The Eye (ſaith the Phi-
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            loſopher) is the ſenſe of Pleaſure, and
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            there are no delights ſo pure and immate-
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            rial, as thoſe which enter through that
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            Organ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5502" xml:space="preserve">Now to the Underſtanding, which
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            is the Eye of the Soul, there cannot be any
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            fairer proſpect, than to view the whole Frame
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            of Nature, the Fabrick of this great Vni-
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            verſe, to diſcern that order and comelineſs
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            which there is in the magnitude, ſituation, mo-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0362-01" xlink:href="note-0362-01a" xml:space="preserve">Wiſd. 7.
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            tion of the ſeveral parts that belong unto it;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s5503" xml:space="preserve">to ſee the true cauſe of that conſtant varie-
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            ty and alteration which there is in the diffe-
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            rent Seaſons of the Year. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s5504" xml:space="preserve">All which muſt
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            needs enter into a Man’s thoughts, with a
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            And therefore it was that Julius Cæſar, in
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