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 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 / By John Wilkins.

  • Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.
Date:
1684
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Credit: 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 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 / By John Wilkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    That the Earth may be a Planet. Thus likewife, by placing the Sun in the Centre, we may conceive fuch‘a: proportion betwixt the Bodies of the Planets, as will be anfwerable unto their fevral Spheres : 105 will have the leaft Body ; Venus bigger than that, but Iefs than any of the other; our Earth bigger than Venus, but lefs than the reft ; Adars bigger than the Earth, but lefs than Fupiter ; Fupiter bigger than Mars, and lefs than Saturna; Saturn being the higheft, fhould alfo be the biggeft. . All which Har- mony would be difturbed, by putting in the-Sun amoneft ‘them ;°and therefore, it may be more convenient for him to fit ftill gn the Centre. | ) There are fundry other Arguments in this kind to be found out, by a confiderati- on of this whole Aypothefis: He-that : does rightly underftand it, may therein eafily difcern many ftrong Probabilities, why the Sun’ fhould be in the midft of the World, rather than in any other Pofition. i