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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1324" xml:space="preserve">Now, where there be many Hills, the
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1325" xml:space="preserve">Thus when the Sea rages, and
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1328" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1329" xml:space="preserve">Though there be Mountains in that part
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            which appears unto us to be the Limb of the
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            Moon, as well as in any other place, yet the
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            there is an Orb of thick vaporus Air that doth
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            immediately compaſs the Body of the Moon,
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            which though it have not ſo great Opacity,
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            as to terminate the Sight, yet being once en-
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            lightned by the Sun, it doth repreſent the Bo-
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            dy of the Moon under a greater form, and hin-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1331" xml:space="preserve">But of this in the next Chap-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1333" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1334" xml:space="preserve">Keplar hath obſerv'd, that in the Solary
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            Eclipſes, when the Rays may paſs through this
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1336" xml:space="preserve">I have now ſufficiently prov'd, that there
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            are Hills in the Moon, and hence it may ſeem
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            likely, that there is alſo a World; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1337" xml:space="preserve">for ſince
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            Providence hath ſome ſpecial end in all its
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