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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            thicker parts appearing in her, do ſhew the
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            difference betwixt the Sea and Land in that
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            other World? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1017" xml:space="preserve">and Galilæus doubts not, but
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            that if our Earth were viſible at the ſame di-
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            ſtance, there would be the like appearance of it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1019" xml:space="preserve">If we conſider the Moon as another habi-
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            table Earth, then the appearances of it will
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            be altogether exact, and beautiful, and may
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            argue unto that, it is fully accompliſhed for
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            all thoſe ends to which Providence did appoint
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1020" xml:space="preserve">But conſider it barely as a Star or Light,
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            and then there will appear in it much imper-
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            fection and deformity, as being of an impure
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            dark ſubſtance, and ſo unfit for the Office of
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            that Nature.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1022" xml:space="preserve">As for the Form of thoſe Spots, ſome of
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            the Vulgar think, they repreſent a Man, and
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            the Poetsgueſs, ’tis the Boy Endymion, whoſe
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            Company ſhe Loves ſo well, that ſhe carries
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            him with her; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1023" xml:space="preserve">others will have it only to be
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            the Face of a Man, as the Moon is uſually pi-
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            ctured; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1024" xml:space="preserve">but Albertus thinks rather, that it re-
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            preſents a Lyon, with his Tail towards the
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            Eaſt, and his Head the Weſt, and ſome others
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            have thought it to be very much like a Fox, and certainly, ’tis as much like a Lyon, as that
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            in the Zodiake, or as Urſa major is like a Bear.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1026" xml:space="preserve">I ſhould gueſs, that it repreſents one of
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            theſe, as well as another, and any thing elſe,
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            as well as any of theſe, ſince ’tis but a ſtrong ima-
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            gination, which fancies ſuch Images, as School
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            Boys uſually do, in the marks of a Wall, where-
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            as there is not any ſuch ſimilitude in the ſpots
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            themſelves, which rather like our Sea, in re-
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