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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            worms that are bred & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2225" xml:space="preserve">nouriſh’d by the Snow,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-01" xlink:href="note-0163-01a" xml:space="preserve">Subtil. l. 9.</note>
            from which being once ſeparated, they dye.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2227" xml:space="preserve">Thus alſo is it with the Air, which we may
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            well conceive does chiefly concur to the nou-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-02" xlink:href="note-0163-02a" xml:space="preserve">The Air.</note>
            riſhing of all Vegitables. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2228" xml:space="preserve">For if their Food
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            were all ſucked out from the Earth, there
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            muſt needs be then ſome ſenſible decay in the
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            ground by them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2229" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially, ſince they do eve-
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            ry year renew their Leaves and Fruits: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2230" xml:space="preserve">which
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            being ſo many, and ſo often, could not be produ-
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            ced without abundance of nouriſhment. </s>
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            per-vive, which will ſtrangely ſhoot forth,
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            and grow as they hang in the open Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2233" xml:space="preserve">Thus
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            likewiſe is it with ſome Senſible Creatures;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2234" xml:space="preserve">the Camelion (ſaith Pliny and Solinus)
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              Polyhiſter.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2235" xml:space="preserve">And ſo are the
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            Birds of Paradiſe, Treated of by many;</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2236" xml:space="preserve"> which reſide conſtantly in the Air, Nature
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              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0163-04" xlink:href="note-0163-04a" xml:space="preserve">Lop. hiſt.
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              Ind. Occid.
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              cap. 96.
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              Majolus
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            baving not beſtowed upon them any Legs, and
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            therefore they are never ſeen upon the ground,
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              that theſe
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              Air, where
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              they are
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              nouriſhed
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              and up-
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            backs of one anather, upon which they ſit till
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            their Young Ones be fledg’d. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2239" xml:space="preserve"> Rondoletius from the Hiſtory of Hermolaus Barbarus tells
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            the cuſtody) that lived Forty years upon meer
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2240" xml:space="preserve">As alſo of a Maid in France, and another
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            in Germany, that for divers years together did
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2241" xml:space="preserve">Nay, he affirms, that
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