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.
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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.
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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            fore in another place he calls it a Terreſtrial
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            Star, and an Olympian and Celeſtial Earth;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1914" xml:space="preserve">anſwerable, as I conceive, to the Paradiſe of
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            the School-Men. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1915" xml:space="preserve">And, that Paradiſe was ei-
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            ther in, or near the Moon, is the Opinion of
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            ſome later Writers, who deriv’d it in all like-
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            lyhood, from the Aſſertion of Plato, and per-
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            haps this of Plutarch. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1916" xml:space="preserve">Toſtatus lays this Opini-
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            on upon Iſiodor, Hiſpalenſis, and the Venerable
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              l.1.c. 3 ſect.
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              7.
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              In geneſ.</note>
            Bede; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1917" xml:space="preserve">and Pererius Fathers it upon Strabus and
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            Rabanus his Maſter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1918" xml:space="preserve">Some would have it to
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            be ſituated in ſuch a place as could not be diſ-
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            cover’d, which caus’d the Pen-man of Eſdras
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            to make it a harder matter to know the out-go-
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            ings of Paradiſe, than to weigh the weight of the
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            Fire, or meaſure the blaſts of the Wind, or call
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0145-02" xlink:href="note-0145-02a" xml:space="preserve">2 Eſdr.4.7.</note>
            again a day that is paſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1919" xml:space="preserve">But notwithſtanding
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            this, there be ſome others, who think, that it
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            is on the Top of ſome high Mountain under
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            the Line; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1920" xml:space="preserve">and theſe interpreted the Torrid
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            Zone to be the flaming Sword whereby Para-
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            diſe was guarded. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1921" xml:space="preserve">’Tis the conſent of divers
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            others, that Paradiſe is ſituated in ſome high & </s>
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            eminent place. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1923" xml:space="preserve">So Toſtatus, Eſt etiam Paradiſus ſi-
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            tu altiſſima, ſupra omnem terræ altitudinem. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1924" xml:space="preserve">’Pa-
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            ‘radiſe is ſituated in ſome high place above
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            ‘the Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1925" xml:space="preserve">and therefore in his Comment up-
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            on the 49 of Geneſis, he underſtands the Bleſ-
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            ſing of Jacob, concerning the everlaſting Hills
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            to be meant of Paradiſe, and the Bleſſing it
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            ſelf to be nothing elſe but a Promiſe of Chriſts
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            coming, by whoſe Paſſion the Gates of Para-
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            diſe ſhould be opened. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1926" xml:space="preserve">Unto him aſſented
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            Rupertus, Scotus, and moſt of the other School-
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            Men, as I find them cited by Pererius, and </s>
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