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.
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[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.
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[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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            Ariſtotle uſes in in his Book de Mundo, and
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            ſhew'd you the neceſſary parts that belong to
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            this World in the Moon. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1421" xml:space="preserve">In the next place
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            ’tis requiſite that I proceed to thoſe things
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            which are Extrinſecal unto it, as the Seaſons, the
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            Meteors, and the Inhabitants.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1423" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1424" xml:space="preserve">Of the Seaſons;</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1426" xml:space="preserve">And if there be ſuch a World in the Moon,
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            ’tis requiſite then that their Seaſons ſhould be
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            ſome way Correſpondent unto ours, that they
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            ſhould have Winter and Summer, Night and
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            Day, as we have.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1428" xml:space="preserve">Now that in this Planet there is ſome Si-
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            militude of Winter and Summer, is affirmed
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-01" xlink:href="note-0109-01a" xml:space="preserve">De gen.
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              animal. l. 4.
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              21.</note>
            by Ariſtotle himſelf, ſince there is one Hemiſ-
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            phere that hath always Heat and Light, and
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            the other that hath Darkneſs and Cold. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1429" xml:space="preserve">True
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            indeed, their Days and Years are always
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            of one and the ſame Length (unleſs we make
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            one of their Years to be 19 of ours, in which
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            ſpace all the Stars do Ariſe after the ſame Or-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0109-02" xlink:href="note-0109-02a" xml:space="preserve">Golden
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              Number.</note>
            der.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1430" xml:space="preserve">But ’tis ſo with us alſo under the Poles,
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            and therefore that great difference is not Suf-
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            ficient to make it altogether unlike ours; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1431" xml:space="preserve">nor
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            can we expect that every thing there ſhould be
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            in the ſame manner as it is here below, as if
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            Nature had no way but one to bring about her
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            Purpoſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1432" xml:space="preserve">We have no Reaſon then to think
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            it neceſſary that both theſe Worlds ſhould be
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            altogether alike, but it may ſuffice if they be
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            Coreſpondent in ſomething only. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1433" xml:space="preserve">However, it
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            may be queſtioned whether it doth not ſeem to
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            be againſt the Wiſdom of Providence, to make
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            the Night of ſo great a Length, when they have
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            ſuch a long time unfit for Work? </s>
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