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

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.

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[42.] PROP. XIII.

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[43.] PROP. XIV.

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[44.] FINIS.

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[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.

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[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.

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[63.] Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.

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[64.] PROP. IX. That it is more probable the Earth does move, than the Sun or Heavens.

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[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.

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[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit

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[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.

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[68.] FINIS.

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4735That the Moon may be a World. Diſtinctly ſet down for this Opinion. For
the better Confirmation of which he adjoins
alſo ſome Authentical Epiſtles of Fredericus
Gæſius Lyncæus, a Noble Prince, written to
Bellarmine, containing divers Reaſons to the
ſame purpoſe. You may alſo ſee the ſame
Truth ſet down by Fohannes Pena, in his Pre-
face to Euclids Opticks, and Chriſtoph. Roth-
manus, both who thought the Firmament to
11De ſtella.
15. 72. l. 1.
c. 9. be only Air: and though the Noble Tycho do
Diſpute againſt them, yet he himſelf holds,
Quod propius ad veritatis penetralia accedit hæc
opinio, quam Ariſtotelica vulgariter approbata,
quæ cælum pluribus realibus atque imperviis orbi-
bus citra rem replevit. ‘That this Opinion
‘ comes nearer to the Truth, than the common
‘ one of Ariſtotle, which hath to no purpoſe
‘ filled the Heavens with ſuch real and Imper-
‘ vious Orbs.

2. There is no Element of Fire, which
muſt be held with this Opinion here deliver'd;
for if we ſuppoſe a World in the Moon, then
it will follow, that the Sphere of Fire, either
is not there where it is uſually placed in the
Concavity of his Orb, or elſe that there is no
ſuch thing at all, which is moſt probable,ſince
there are not any ſuch Solid Orbs, that by
their ſwift Motion might Heat and Enkindle
the adjoyning Air, which is imagined to be
the Reaſon of that Element. The Arguments
that are commonly urged to this purpoſe, are
theſe.

1. That which was beſore alledged concer-
ning the Refractions which will be caus'd by
a different Medium. For if the Matter of

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