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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.
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[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit
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[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.
Page: 361 (181)
[68.] FINIS.
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head48" xml:space="preserve">PROP. X.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head49" style="it" xml:space="preserve">That there is an Atmo-ſphæra, or an Orb of groſs,
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          Vaporous Air, immediately encompaſſing the
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          body of the Moon.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1340" xml:space="preserve">AS that part of our Air which is neareſt
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            to the Earth, is of a thicker Subſtance
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            than the other, by reaſon ’tis always mixed
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            with ſome Vapours, which are continually
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            exhaled into it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1341" xml:space="preserve">So is it equally requiſit, that
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            if there be a World in the Moon, that the Air
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            About that, ſhould be alike qualified with
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            ours. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1342" xml:space="preserve">Now, that there is ſuch an Orb of groſs
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            Air, was firſt of all (for ought I can read)
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            obſerved by Meſlin, afterwards aſſented unto
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            by Keplar and Galilæus, and fince by Baptiſta
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-01" xlink:href="note-0104-01a" xml:space="preserve">Vide Euſeb.
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              Nierem. de
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              Nat. Hiſt.
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              l. 2. c. 11.</note>
            Giſatus, Scheiner, with others, all of them con-
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            firming it by the ſame Arguments which I
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            ſhall only cite, and then leave this Propoſition.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1344" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1345" xml:space="preserve">’Tis not improbable that there ſhould be
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            a Sphere of groſſer Air about the Moon, be-
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            cauſe'tis obſerv'd, that there are ſuch kind of
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            Evaporations which proceed from the Sun it
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            ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1346" xml:space="preserve">For there are diſcover'd divers movea-
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            ble Spots, like Clouds, that do encompaſs his
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            Body; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1347" xml:space="preserve">which thoſe Authors, who have been
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            moſt frequently vers'd in theſe kind of Expe-
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            riments and Studies, do conclude to be nothing
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            elſe but Evaporations from it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1348" xml:space="preserve">The Probabi-
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            lity and Truth of which Obſervations may al-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0104-02" xlink:href="note-0104-02a" xml:space="preserve">So A. D.
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              1547.
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              April 24.
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              to the 28.</note>
            ſo be inferr'd from ſome other appearances. </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1350" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1351" xml:space="preserve">It hath been obſerv'd, that the Sun hath
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            ſometimes for the ſpace of four days </s>
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