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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            ſo much of the Beſpotted, as there is of the En-
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            lightned parts, wherefore ’tis Probable, that
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            there is no ſuch thing at all, or elſe, that the
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            Brighter parts are the Sea.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1039" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1040" xml:space="preserve">The Water, by Reaſon of the Smoothneſs
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            of its Superficies, ſeems better able to Reflect
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            the Sun-Beams than the Earth, which in moſt
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            Places is ſo full of Ruggedneſs of Graſs and
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            Trees, and ſuch like Impediments of Reflexion;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1041" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, common Experience ſhews, that the
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            Water Shines with a greater and more Glori-
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            ſhould ſeem that the Spots are the Earth, and
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            the Brighter parts the Water. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1043" xml:space="preserve">But to the Firſt
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1045" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1046" xml:space="preserve">There is no great Probability in this
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            Conſequence, that becauſe ’tis ſo with us, there-
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            fore it muſt be ſo with the parts of the Moon,
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            for ſince there is ſuch a Difference betwixt
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            them in Divers other Reſpects, they may not
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            perhaps Agree in this.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1048" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1049" xml:space="preserve">That Aſſertion of Scaliger is not by all
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              ris. l. s. c. 1.
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              Art. 1.</note>
            granted for a Truth. </s>
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            think, that the Superficies of the Sea and Land,
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            in ſo much of the World as is already Diſcover-
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            ed, is equal, and of the ſame Extenſion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1052" xml:space="preserve">3. </s>
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            which incompaſſes theMoon, makes the Bright-
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            er parts of that Planet appear bigger than in
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            themſelves they are; </s>
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            though the Water be of a ſmooth Superficies,
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            and ſo may ſeem moſt fit to Reverberate the
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            Light, yet becauſe ’tis of a Perſpicuous </s>
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