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

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.

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[42.] PROP. XIII.

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[43.] PROP. XIV.

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[44.] FINIS.

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[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.

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[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.

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[63.] Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.

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[64.] PROP. IX. That it is more probable the Earth does move, than the Sun or Heavens.

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[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.

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[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit

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[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.

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[68.] FINIS.

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125113That the Moon may be a World. way of producing Meteors, as ſhe doth with
us (and not by a Motion, as Plutarch ſuppoſes)
becauſe ſhe doth not love to vary from her
uſual Operations without ſome extraordinary
impediment, but ſtill keeps her beaten path,
unleſs ſhe be driven thence.

One Argument whereby I ſhall manifeſt
this Truth, may be taken from thoſe new
Stars which have appeared in divers Ages of
the World, and by their Paralax, have been
diſcern’d to have been above the Moon, ſuch
as was that in Gaſſiopeia, that in Sagitarius,
with many others betwixt the Planets. Hipar-
chus in his time took ſpecial notice of ſuch as
11Plin. nat.
hiſt. l. 2. c.
26. theſe, and therefore fancied out ſuch Conſtel-
lations, in which to place the Stars, ſhewing
how many there were in every Aſteriſm, that
ſo afterwards, Poſterity might know, whe-
ther there were any new Star produc’d, or
any old one miſſing. Now the nature of theſe
Comets may probably manifeſt, that in this
other World there are other Meteors alſo;
for theſe in all likelyhood are nothing elſe, but
ſuch Evaporations cauſed by the Sun, from the
Bodies of the Planets. I ſhall prove this, by
ſhewing the Improbabilities and Inconvenien-
ces of any other Opinion.

For the better purſuit of this, ’tis in the
firſt place requiſite, that I deal with our chief
Adverſary, Gæſar la Galla, who doth moſt
directly oppoſe that Truth which is here to be
prov’d. He endeavouring to confirm the In-
corruptibility of the Heavens, and being there
to ſatisfie the Argument which is taken from
theſe Comets, he anſwers it thus: Aut

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