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.
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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            nicus’s obſervations, and did intend to write
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-01" xlink:href="note-0194-01a" xml:space="preserve">Ibid.</note>
            a Commentary upon his other Works, but
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            that he was taken out of this Life before he
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            could finiſh thoſe reſolutions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2684" xml:space="preserve">Unto theſe
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            alſo I might add the names of Gilbert, Keplar,
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            Gallilæus, with ſundry others, who have much
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            beautified and confirmed this Hypotheſis, with
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            their new inventions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2685" xml:space="preserve">Nay, I may ſafely af-
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            firm, that amongſt the variety of thoſe Opi-
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            nions that are in Aſtronomy, there are more (of
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            thoſe which have skill in it) that are of this
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            Opinion, not only than any other, but
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            than all the reſt put together. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2686" xml:space="preserve">So that now
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            it is a greater Argument of Singularity to
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            oppoſe it.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2688" xml:space="preserve">’Tis probable, that many other of the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-02" xlink:href="note-0194-02a" xml:space="preserve">5 Conſid.</note>
            Antients would have aſſented unto this Opi-
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            nion, if they had been acquainted with thoſe
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            experiments which later times have found
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            out for the confirmation of it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2689" xml:space="preserve">And there-
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            fore Rheticus and Keplar do ſo often
              <note symbol="*" position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-03" xlink:href="note-0194-03a" xml:space="preserve">In Nar-
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              ratione.</note>
            that Ariſtotle were now alive again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2690" xml:space="preserve">Queſti-
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            onleſs he was ſo rational and ingenious a
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              <note symbol="†" position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-04" xlink:href="note-0194-04a" xml:space="preserve">Myſt.
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              Coſmogr.
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              cap. 1. Item
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              pref. ad 4.
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              1. Aſtr. Co-
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              pern.</note>
            Man (not half ſo obſtinate as many of his
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            followers) that upon ſuch probabilities as
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            theſe, he would quickly have renounced his
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            ownPrinciples, & </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2691" xml:space="preserve">have come over to this ſide:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2692" xml:space="preserve">For in one place, having propoſed ſome
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            queſtions about the Heavens, which were
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0194-05" xlink:href="note-0194-05a" xml:space="preserve">de Cal. l. 2.
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              c. 12.</note>
            not eaſie to be reſolved: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2693" xml:space="preserve">He ſets down this
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            rule, that in difficulties, a Man may take a
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            liberty to ſpeak that which ſeems moſt like-
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            ly to him: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2694" xml:space="preserve">And in ſuch caſes, an aptneſs to
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            gueſs at ſome reſolution, for the </s>
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