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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    but. thatiit, may befowvith the Earth alfo: which ifiany deny,::he muft ‘fhevya’ rea- fon. vvhy in this redpett they Should be unlike, Yea; but though Abe! Earth did move round, , vvhat ground.is there to‘affirm; that thofe Bodies vvhich are fevered from’ i its: as a Bullet,:.or the Clouds, fhould” follovy i in. the fame courfe ? L anfvver.: Thofe Spots uebich are alone vered about the: Sun,! andare thought ro be Glouds, or, Evaporations from his Body, are obferved, to; be carried: about according ta his Revolution, . ‘Thus! the:Moon isiturned round;by our Earth ;;the four lefler: Planets by the,Body of Fupiters Nay, thus, all the Planets, in their feveral Orbs, are moved a- bout, by;-the Revolution of the Sun upon its ovvni daw (faith :Keplar) and; there- fore, much ‘more may ian Arrovy;,or Bul- ket, | be cartied round by: the Magnetical Mo- tion, of our Earth. The. fecond vray; éyheschy fome anfvver unto.the Inftances of .this Argument, is, by, fhewing the like: Motions ;of;other things, within fome Room of a failing Ship, Thus Experience teaches, (fay they) that a Candle, as alfo the Fumes that come from ity will always keep; the fame feituation, in the {wifteft ‘motion of .a Ship, asif) ic did reft immovably,! and the Flame. wih, not more. efpecially bend one way, or liave any troubled fluctuation,but burn as ftreight and guietly,,as if it did ftand ftill. Again, it Yas } has be the fa diftant wits Asall delce the Sih up, a ot al ereate the cal ried fi luppak will n0 May a long t ly mot much we {uy aaa If t that (0 ily mo 1“4 the ¢ mo