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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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2301" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2302" xml:space="preserve">Another way to find the height of this Va-
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            porous Air, is, by knowing the difſerence of
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            Altitude, which it cauſeth, in refracting the
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2303" xml:space="preserve">And from
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            this Obſervation alſo, it is uſually concluded to
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            be about two or three miles high.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2305" xml:space="preserve">But now you muſt not conceive, as if the
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            Orb of Magnetical Vigor, were bounded in
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            an exact Superficies, or, as if it did equally
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            hold out juſt to ſuch a determinate Line, and
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            no further. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2306" xml:space="preserve">But as it hath been ſaid of the firſt
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            Region, which is there terminated, where the
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            Heat of Reflection does begin to Languiſh: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2307" xml:space="preserve">So
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            likewiſe is it probable, that this Magnetical
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            Vigor does remit of its degrees proportionably
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            to its diſtance from the Earth, which is the cauſe
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            of it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2308" xml:space="preserve">and therefore though the thicker Clouds
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            may be elevated no higher, yet this Orb may
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            be continued in weaker degrees a little beyond
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            them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2309" xml:space="preserve">We will ſuppoſe it (which in all like-
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            lyhood is the moſt) to be about Twenty Miles
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            probable, that if a Man could but fly, or by
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            any other means get Twenty Miles upwards, it
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2312" xml:space="preserve">But it may be again Objected: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2313" xml:space="preserve">Tho’ all this
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            were true; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2314" xml:space="preserve">though there were ſuch an Orb of
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            Air which did terminate the Earths vigour:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2315" xml:space="preserve">and tho’ the heavineſs of our Bodies could not
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            hinder our paſſage, through the vaſt ſpaces of
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            the Æthereal Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2316" xml:space="preserve">yet thoſe two other Impe-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2318" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
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