The discovery of a world in the moone . y^i ntirentm. As wee now won-der at the Llindnefle ofourAnceftors 5 who were not a-bJe to dilcerne ftich things asfecme plaine and obvious untous. So will our poftcrity ad-mire ovt ignorance in as per-^icuous matters, Keplar doixhi^notj but that as foone as theart of flying is found out^ femeof rheir Nation will make oneof the firft colonies that /hallinhabite that other world. ButI leave this and the like con-jeftures to the fancie of thereader; Defiring now to finifhthis Difcourfe^ wherein I havein fome meafiire proved whatat the firft 1 promifedj a wo
The discovery of a world in the moone . y^i ntirentm. As wee now won-der at the Llindnefle ofourAnceftors 5 who were not a-bJe to dilcerne ftich things asfecme plaine and obvious untous. So will our poftcrity ad-mire ovt ignorance in as per-^icuous matters, Keplar doixhi^notj but that as foone as theart of flying is found out^ femeof rheir Nation will make oneof the firft colonies that /hallinhabite that other world. ButI leave this and the like con-jeftures to the fancie of thereader; Defiring now to finifhthis Difcourfe^ wherein I havein fome meafiire proved whatat the firft 1 promifedj a worldua the Moone. However^ I amnot fo rcfohite in this, that Ithinke tis neceflary there nuiftbe one, but my opinion isthat tis pofiiblc there may be,^nd tis probable there is ano-ther habitable world in thatPlanet. And this was that I under- of a net!? World, undeitooke to prove. In the pur-fuit whereof 5 it I have {hewedmuch weaknefle or indifcretion;I (hall willingly fubmit my felfeto the reafon and cenfure of themore judicious. i09. / •? it The Propofitions that are proved in this Difcourfc. Piopofition I. That the([raKgentftefth(i i$ nojufictem reaf$n tfb)it fottUt h rtjiBed, iecanfi6ther cmaint truths have hemfortnerly tj}ce:iied ridiculotu^tnigrt«t ahfwdftiej entertayncdbjcommon conftnt. By \uy cf Pfcftce. t^at MflHrality of worlds deth nHcojtradm tny trmeipU ofrea-fon or faith.
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