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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10795That the Moon may be a World. tre of the Moon, than the outward Circumfe-
rence
of the enlightned part.
But the Moon
being
in the Full;
then does it ſeem to receive
theſe
Stars within its Limb.
5. ’Tis obſerv'd, in the Solary Eclipſes, that
there
is ſometimes a great Trepidation about
the
Body of the Moon, from which we may
likewife
argue an Atmo-ſphæra, ſince we can-
not
well conceive what ſo probable a cauſe
there
ſhould be of ſuch an appearance as this,
Quod
radii Solares à vaporibus Lunam ambien-
11Scheiner
Roſ
. Vrſ. l.
4
. pars. 2.
c
. 27.
tibus fuerint interciſi, that the Sun beams were
broken
and refracted by the Vapours that en-
compaſſed
the Moon.

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