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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            cauſe of this Motion, then will thoſe vaſt
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            and glorious Bodies of the Heavens, be freed
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            from that inconceivable, unnatural ſwift-
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            neſs, which muſt otherwiſe be attributed
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4857" xml:space="preserve">For if the Diurnal Revolution be in the
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              Epit. Aſtr.
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            Heavens, then it will follow, according to
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            the common Hypotheſis, that each Star in
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            the Equator, muſt in every hour move at
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            the leaſt 4529538 German miles. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4858" xml:space="preserve">So that
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            according to the obſervation of
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            who tells us, that the Pulſe of a well-tem-
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            pered Man, does beat 4000 times in an
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4859" xml:space="preserve">one of the Stars in that ſpace, whilſt
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            the Pulſe beats once, muſt paſs 1132 Ger-
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            man miles (ſaith Alphraganus): </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4860" xml:space="preserve">Or, ac-
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            cording to Tycho, 732 German miles. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4861" xml:space="preserve">But
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            theſe numbers ſeem to be ſomewhat of the
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            leaſt; </s>
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