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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[41.] PROP. XII.
[42.] PROP. XIII.
[43.] PROP. XIV.
[44.] FINIS.
[45.] A DISCOURSE Concerning a Rem Planet. Tending to prove That ’tis probable our EARTH is one of the PLANETS. The Second Book. By John Wilkins, late L. Biſhop of Cheſter.
[46.] LONDON: Printed by J. D. for John Gellibrand, at the Golden Ball in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. M.DC.LXXXIV.
[47.] To the Reader.
[48.] PROP. I.
[49.] PROP. II.
[50.] PROP. III.
[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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            you may ſee ſundry Diſcourſes more at large
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-01" xlink:href="note-0041-01a" xml:space="preserve">In opere 6.
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              dierum.
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              diſput. 5.
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              In lib. de
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              Mundi
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              conſtit.</note>
            in Ludovicus Molina, Euſebius Nirembergius,
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            with divers others. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s464" xml:space="preserve">The Venerable Bede
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            thought the Planets to conſiſt of all the four
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            Elements; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s465" xml:space="preserve">and ’tis likely that the other parts
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            are of an Aerous Subſtance, as will be ſhewed
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            after wards; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s466" xml:space="preserve">however, I cannot now ſtand to re-
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            cite the Arguments for either; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s467" xml:space="preserve">I have only
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            urged theſe Authorities to countervail Ariſtotle,
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            and the School-Men, and the better to make
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            way for a proof of their Corruptibility.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s469" xml:space="preserve">The next thing then to be enquir'd after, is,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-02" xlink:href="note-0041-02a" xml:space="preserve">2 Pet. 3. 12</note>
            whether they be of a corruptible Nature, not
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            whether they can be deſtroyed of God; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s470" xml:space="preserve">for
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            this, Scripture puts out of doubt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s472" xml:space="preserve">Nor whether or no in a long time they
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            would wear away and grow worſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s473" xml:space="preserve">for from
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-03" xlink:href="note-0041-03a" xml:space="preserve">By Doctor
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              Hakewell.
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              Ap. l. lib. 2.</note>
            any ſuch Fear they have been lately priviledg-
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            ed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s474" xml:space="preserve">But whether they are capable of ſuch
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            changes and viciſſitudes, as this inferiour
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            World is lyable unto?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s476" xml:space="preserve">The two chief Opinions concerning this,
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            have both erred in ſome extremity, the one
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            ſide going ſo far from the other, that they
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            have both gone beyond the Right, whilſt
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            Ariſtotle hath oppos'd the Truth, as well as the
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            Stoicks.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s478" xml:space="preserve">Some of the Ancients have thought, that
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            the Heavenly Bodies have ſtood in need of
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              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0041-04" xlink:href="note-0041-04a" xml:space="preserve">Plutarch
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              de plac.
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              philoſ. l. 2.
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              c. 17.
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              Nat. Hiſt.
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              l. 2. c. 9.
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              Nat. quæſt.
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              lib. 2. c. 5.</note>
            Nouriſhment from the Elements, by which
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            they were continually Fed, and ſo had divers
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            Alterations by reaſon of their Food?</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s480" xml:space="preserve">Fathered on Heraclitus, followed by that great
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            Naturaliſt Pliny, and in general attributed to all the Stoicks. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s481" xml:space="preserve">You may ſee Seneca </s>
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