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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            ſhould have Trave@ed thither alſo, if there had
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            been any Inhabitants; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s185" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially ſince he did ex-
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            preſly command them to go & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s186" xml:space="preserve">Teach all Nations,
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            and Preach the Goſpel through the whole World,
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            and therefore he thinks, that as there are no
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            Men, ſo neither are there Seas, or Rivers, or any
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            other conveniency for Habitation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s187" xml:space="preserve">’Tis com-
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            monly related of one Virgliius, that he was Ex-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0019-02" xlink:href="note-0019-02a" xml:space="preserve">Aventinus
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              Annal Boi-
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              orum lib. 3</note>
            communicated and Condemned for a Heretick
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            by Zachary Biſhop of Rome, becauſe he was
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            not of the ſame Opinion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s188" xml:space="preserve">But Baronius ſays,
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            becauſe he thought there was another habita-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0019-03" xlink:href="note-0019-03a" xml:space="preserve">Annal Ec-
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              cleſ. A. D.
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              748.</note>
            ble World within ours. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s189" xml:space="preserve">However, you may
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            well enough diſcern in theſe examples, how
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            confident many of theſe great Scholars were
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            in ſo groſs an Error, how unlikely, what in-
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            credible thing it ſeemed to them, that there
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            ſhould be any Antipodes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s190" xml:space="preserve">and yet now this
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            Truth is as certain and plain, as Senſe or De-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s191" xml:space="preserve">This then which I
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            now deliver, is not to be rejected, though it
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            may ſeem to contradict the common Opinion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s193" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s194" xml:space="preserve">Groſs abſurdities have been entertained
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            by general conſent. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s195" xml:space="preserve">I might Inſtance in many
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            remarkable examples, but I will only ſpeak
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            of the ſuppoſed Labour of the Moon in her
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            Eclipſes, becauſe this is neareſt to the chieſ
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            matter in hand, and was received as a common
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            Opinion amongſt many of the Antients, inſo-
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            much that from hence they ſtiled the Eclipſes
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            by the name of πὰθη Paſſions, or in the Phraſe
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