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.
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[52.] PROP. V.
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[53.] PROP. VI.
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[54.] PROP. VII. PROP. VIII. PROP. IX. PROP. X.
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[55.] That the EARTH May be a PLANET. PROP. I.
Page: 181 ((1))
[56.] PROP. II.
Page: 201 (21)
[57.] PROP. III.
Page: 215 (35)
[58.] PROP. IV.
Page: 236 (56)
[59.] PROP. V. That the Scripture, in its proper conſtru-ction, does not any where affirm the Immobility of the Earth.
Page: 246 (66)
[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.
Page: 258 (78)
[61.] PROP. VII. Tis probable that the Sun is in the Gentre of the World.
Page: 279 (99)
[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.
Page: 286 (106)
[63.] Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.
Page: 288 (108)
[64.] PROP. IX. That it is more probable the Earth does move, than the Sun or Heavens.
Page: 321 (141)
[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.
Page: 342 (162)
[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit
Page: 360 (180)
[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.
Page: 361 (181)
[68.] FINIS.
Page: 364 (184)
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4300" xml:space="preserve">ſo that Senſe is but an ill Judg of Na-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4301" xml:space="preserve">’Tis a good Rule of Plato,
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            ſo to us; </s>
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            it does move when we go upon the Water; </s>
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            an eaſy matter to prove the Sun and Moon
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            not ſo big as a Hat, or the fixed Stars as a
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            Candle.</s>
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              be only apparent, and not real, then the
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              l. 1. ſect.1.
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            Motion of the Clouds will be ſo too, ſince
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            the Eye may be as well deceived in the one
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