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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            # and ſtrict conſtruction, do not any where af-
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            # firm the Immobility of the Earth.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head67" xml:space="preserve">PROP. VI.</head>
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            # of Scripture, Principles of Nature, or Ob-
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            # ſervations in Aſtronomy, which can ſuffici-
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            # ently evidence the Earth to be in the Centre
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            # of the Univerſe.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head68" xml:space="preserve">PROP. VII.</head>
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            # the World.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head69" xml:space="preserve">PROP. VIII.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2496" xml:space="preserve">That there is not any ſufficient reaſon to prove
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            # the Earth incapable of thoſe Motions which
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            # Copernicus aſcribes unto it.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head70" xml:space="preserve">PROP. IX.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2498" xml:space="preserve">That it is more probable the Earth does move,
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            # than the Heavens.</s>
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            # common Appearances.</s>
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