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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171159That the Moon may be a World.
2. If there be ſuch a great Ruck in Madagaſcar, as 11Mr. Bur.
ton
.
cus Polus the Venetian mentions, the Feathers in whoſe
Wings
are twelve Foot long, which can ſoop up a Horle
22Melanch.
pa
. 2. ſect. 2
mem
. 3.
and his Rider, or an Elephant, as our Kites do a Mouſe;
why then ’tis but teaching one of theſe to carry a man, and
he
may ride up thither, as Ganimed does upon an Eagle.
33Lib. 3.
c
. 40.
--------Fæliceſque animæ, quas nubila ſupra,
Et
turpes fumos, plenumque vaporibus orbem,
Inſeruit
cælo ſancti ſcintilla Promethei.

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