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.
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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.
Page: 342 (162)
[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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            agreed on by the General Conſent of the moſt,
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            and the beſt Philoſophers.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s620" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s621" xml:space="preserve">It is Solid, in Opoſition to Fluid, as is the
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            Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s622" xml:space="preserve">for how otherwiſe could it beat back
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            the Light which it receives from the Sun?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s624" xml:space="preserve">But here it may be Queſtioned, whether
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            or no the Moon beſtow her light upon us, by
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            the Reflection of the Sun-beams from the Su-
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            perficies of her Body, or elſe by her own illu-
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            mination? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s625" xml:space="preserve">Some there are who affirm this
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0051-01" xlink:href="note-0051-01a" xml:space="preserve">a De Cælo
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              l. 2.com.49.
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              b Ante le-
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              ction.li. 20.
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              c. 4.
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              c De pbæ-
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              nom. Lunæ
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              c. II.</note>
            latter part. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s626" xml:space="preserve">So (a) Averroes, (b) Gælius Rho-
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            diginus, (c) Fulius Gæſar &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s627" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s628" xml:space="preserve">And their Rea-
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            ſon is, becauſe this Light is diſcern'd in many
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            Places, whereas thoſe Bodies which give
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            Light by Reflexion, can there only be percei-
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            ved where the Angel of Reflexion is Equal
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            to the Angel of Incidence, and this is only in
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            one place, as in a Looking Glaſs, thoſe Beams
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            which are reflected from it, cannot be percei-
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            ved in every place where you may ſee the
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            Glaſs, but only there where your Eye is pla-
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            ced on the ſame Line whereon the Beams are
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            Reſlected.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s630" xml:space="preserve">But to this I anſwer, That the Argument
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            will not hold of ſuch Bodies, whoſe Superfi-
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            cies, is full of Unequal parts and Giboſities
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            as the Moon is. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s631" xml:space="preserve">Wherefore ’tis as well the
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            more probable, as the more common Opini-
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            on, that her Light proceeds from both theſe
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            Cauſes, from Reflexion and Illumination;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s632" xml:space="preserve">nor doth it herein differ from our Earth, ſince
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            that alſo hath ſome Light by Illumination: </s>
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            for how otherwiſe would the Parts about us
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            in a Sun-ſhine Day appear ſo Bright, when as
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            the Rays of Reflexion cannot Enter into our
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