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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[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.
[61.] PROP. VII. Tis probable that the Sun is in the Gentre of the World.
[62.] PROP. VIII. That there is not any ſufficient reaſon to prove the Earth incapable of thoſe mo-tions which Copernicus aſcribes un-to it.
[63.] Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.
[64.] PROP. IX. That it is more probable the Earth does move, than the Sun or Heavens.
[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.
[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit
[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.
[68.] FINIS.
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7260That the Moon may be a World. feign to put in a Fable, our more happy Age
hath
found out in a Truth, and we may diſcern
with
theſeEyes whichGalilæus hath beſtow’d as
far
upon us, as Lynceus could with thoſe which
the
Poets attributed unto him.
But if you yet
doubt
, whether all theſe Obſervations were
true
, the ſame Author may conſirm you, when
he
ſays they were ſhewed, Non uni aut alteri,
ſed
quam plurimis, neque gregariis hominibus, ſed
11cap. I. præcipuis atque diſciplinis omnibus, necnon Ma-
thematicis
&
Opticis prœceptis optimè inſtructis
ſedulâ
ac diligenti inſpectione.
‘Not to one or
two, but to very many, and thoſe not ordi-
nary Men, but to thoſe who were well vers’d
in Mathematicks and Opticks, and that not
with a meer glance, but with a ſedulous and
diligent Inſpection.
And leaſt any ſcruple
might
remain unanſwer’d, or you might think
the
Men who beheld all this, tho’ they might
be
skilful, yet they came with credulous minds,
and
ſo were more eaſie to be deluded:
He
adds
, that it was ſhewed, Viris qui ad experi-
menta
hæc contradicendi animo acceſſerant.
‘To
22cap. 5. ſuch as were come with a great deal of Pre-
judice, and an intent oſ Contradiction.
Thus
you
may ſee the certainty of thoſe Experiments
which
were taken by this Glaſs.
I have ſpoken
the
more concerning it, becauſe I ſhall borrow
many
things in my farther Diſcourſe, from
thoſe
Diſcoveries which were made by it.

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