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.
[42.] PROP. XIII.
[43.] PROP. XIV.
[44.] FINIS.
[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.
[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.
[63.] Provebimur portu, terræque, verbeſq; recedunt.
[64.] PROP. IX. That it is more probable the Earth does move, than the Sun or Heavens.
[65.] PROP. X. That this Hypotheſis is exactly agreeable to common appearances.
[66.] Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit
[67.] Brevem replere non valentis ambitum, # Pudebit aucti nominis.
[68.] FINIS.
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21030That the Earth may be a Planet. muſt be interpreted in reference to the opi-
nion of the Vulgar, and by the midſt of
Heaven, we are to underſtand ſuch a place
as was not very near to either of the ends,
the Eaſt or Weſt.
(4.) And there was no day like that, before it,
or after it:
Which words are not to be un-
derſtood abſolutely, for there are always
longer days under the Poles:
but in reſpect
to the opinion of the Vulgar, that is, there
was never any day ſo long which theſe igno-
rant People knew of.
3. As for this laſt place, concerning the
Sun's returning ten degrees in the Dial of
112 King 20.
II.
Iſa. 38. 8.
Ahaz;
I think it may probably be affirmed,
That it is to be underſtood only concerning
the Shadow:
which though it do neceſſarily
happen in all Horizontal Dials, for any La-
titude betwixt the Tropicks:
And ſo con-
ſequently in all Declining Dials, the Ele-
vation of whoſe Pole is leſs than the Sun's
greateſt Declination;
as Clavius, de Horol.
cap. 21. obſerves: Yet the Circumſtances of
this relation in Scripture, makes the Event
to differ from that other which is common
and natural;
which againſt its nature did
ſeem to go backwards, when as the Sun it
ſelf was not in the leaſt manner altered from
its uſual courſe.
Of this opinion were A-
barbinell, Arius Montanus, Burgenſis, Vatablas
Sanctius, &
c.
The Reaſons for it may be theſe:
1. The Miracle is propoſed only concern-
ing the Shadow;
Wilt thou that the

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