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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[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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144132That the Moon may be a World. of Hell, and that number expreſſes the Dia-
meter
of its Concavity, which is 200 Italian
11De Morib.
div
. l. 13. c.
24
.
Miles;
But Leſſius thinks that this Opinion
gives
them too much Room in Hell, and there-
fore
he gueſſes that ’tis not ſo wide;
for (faith
he
) the Diameter of one League being cubi-
cally
multiplyed, will make a Sphere capable
of
800000 Millions of damaed Bodies, allow-
ing
to each ſix Foot in the Square;
whereas,
ſays
he, ’tis certain, that there ſhall not be
one
hundred thouſand Milions in all that ſhall
be
damned.
You ſee the bold Jeſuit was care-
ful
that every one ſhould have but room enough
in
Hell, and by the ſtrangeneſs of the Con-
jecture
, you may gueſs that he had rather be
abſurd
, than ſeem either uncharitable or igno-
rant
.
I remember there is a Relation in Pliny,
how
that Dionyſidorous a Mathematician, be-
ing
Dead, did ſend a Letter from this place to
ſome
of his Friends upon Earth, to certifie
them
what diſtance there was betwixt the
Centre
and Superficies:
he might have done
well
to have prevented this Controverſie, and
inform’d
them the utmoſt capacity of the place.
However, certain it is, that that number can-
not
be known;
and probable it is, that the place
is
not yet determin’d, but that Hell is there
where
there is any tormented Soul, which may
be
in the Regions of the Air, as well as in the
Centre
:
and therefore perhaps it is, that the
Devil
is ſtyled the Prince of the Air.
But this
only
occaſionally, and by reaſon of Plutarch’s
Opinion
concerning thoſe that are round about
the
Moon;
as for the Moon it ſelf, he eſteems
22Cur ſilent
eracula
.
it to be a lower kind of Heaven, and

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