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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            we ſnall find that Abraham's Poſterity, in
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            ſome few Generations, were far more than
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            there are viſible Stars in the Firmament; </s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3104" xml:space="preserve">Now all theſe, even unto ſix differences of
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            Magnitude, are reckoned to be but 1022.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3105" xml:space="preserve">True indeed, at the firſt viewing of the
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            Heavens. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3106" xml:space="preserve">it may ſeem an incredible thing,
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            that they ſhould be of no greater a num-
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            appear ſcattered and confuſed; </s>
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            to reckon them up, or take any diftinct ſur-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3109" xml:space="preserve">Now 'tis a known truth,
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            Quod fortius operatur pluralitas partium, ubi
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0221-01" xlink:href="note-0221-01a" xml:space="preserve">Sir F Bac.
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              Table of
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              Colours,
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            ordo abeſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3110" xml:space="preserve">nam inducit ſimilitudinem infiniti,
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            of parts, without order, has a more ſtrong
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            Stars many times, than there are bodies of
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            ſo great a diſtance; </s>
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            Beams which proceed from ſuch remote Bo-
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            dies, in a twinkling and wavering manner,
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            and ſo mix and confound themſelves at their
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            entrance into that Organ: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3116" xml:space="preserve">it muſt needs re-
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