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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            ters do hang there after ſuch a ſtupendious in-
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            conceivable manner; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2358" xml:space="preserve">which ſeems likewiſe to
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            be favoured by Scripture, where ’tis mentio-
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            ned as a great Argument of Gods Omnipoten-
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            cy, that he holds up the Clouds from falling.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2359" xml:space="preserve">He binds up the Waters in his thick Glouds, and
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0170-01" xlink:href="note-0170-01a" xml:space="preserve">Job. 26. 8.</note>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2361" xml:space="preserve">But that which unto me ſeems full ſatisfacti-
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            on againſt this doubt, is this Conſideration;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2362" xml:space="preserve">that the natural vigor, whereby the Earth doth
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            attract denſe bodies unto it, is leſs efficacious
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            at a diſtance: </s>
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            denſity, which is near unto it, as ſuppoſe, this
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            thin Air wherein we breath, may naturally be
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            lower in its Scituation, than another of a grea-
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            ter condenſity that is farther off; </s>
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            the Clouds in the ſecond Region. </s>
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            the one be abſolutely, and in it ſelf more fit
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            for this Motion of deſcent; </s>
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            its diſtance, the Earths magnetical Virtue can-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2368" xml:space="preserve">As for that Relation of Ariſtotle; </s>
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            true; </s>
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            might help us againſt its thinneſs: </s>
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            likely, that he took it upon Truſt, as he did
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            ſome other Relations concerning the height of
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            of the Mountains, wherein ’tis evident, that
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2372" xml:space="preserve">As where he tells us
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2375" xml:space="preserve">If it be here enquired; </s>
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            may be conjectur’d, for our aſcending beyond
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            the Sphere of the Earths Magnetical Vigor.</s>
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