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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7058That the Moon may be a World.
But, in my following Diſcourſe, I ſhall moſt
inſiſt
on the Obſervation of Galilæus, the In-
ventor
of that Famous Perſpective, whereby
we
may diſcern the Heavens hard by us;
where-
by
thoſe things which others have formerly
gueſt
at, are manifeſted to the Eye, and plain-
ly
diſcover’d beyond exception or doubt;
of
which
admirable invention, theſe latter Ages of
the
World may juſtly Boaſt, and for this, ex-
pect
to be Celebrated by Poſterity.
’Tis re-
lated
of Eudoxus, that he wiſhed himſelf burnt
with
Phaeton, ſo he might ſtand over the Sun
to
contemplate itsNature;
had he liv’d in theſe
days
, he might have enjoyed his wiſh at an ea-
ſier
rate, and ſcaling the Heavens by this Glaſs,
might
plainly have diſcern’d what he ſo much
deſir’d
.
Keplar conſidering thoſe ſtrange diſ-
coveries
which this Perſpective had made,
could
not chooſe but cry out in a Πρ ηοΠ ποΠΗα &

Rapture
of Admiration, O multiſcium &
quo-
11De macula
in
ſole obſer.
vis ſceptro pretioſus perſpicillum! an qui te dexte-
tenet, ille non dominus conſtituatur operum Dei?
And Foannes Fabricius, an Elegant Writer,
ſpeaking
oſ the ſame Glaſs, and for this In-
vention
, preferring our Age beſore thoſe for-
mer
Times of greater Ignorance, ſays thus;

Adeo
ſumus ſuperiors veteribus, ut quam illi car-
minis
magici pronunciatu demiſſam repreſentâſſe
putantur
, nos non tantum innocenter demittamus,
ſed
etiam familiari quodam intuitu ejus quaſi con-
ditionem
intueamur.
‘So much are we above
the Ancients, that whereas they were fain
by their Magical Charms to repreſent the
Moons approach, we cannot only bring her
lower with a greater Innocence, but may

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