Now if our earth were one of the Planets (as it is according to them) then why may not another of the Planets be an earth?
Thus have I shewed you the truth of this proposition: Before I proceede farther, 'tis requisite that I informe the Reader, what method I shall follow in the proving of this chiefe assertion, that there is a World in the Moone.
The order by which I shall bee guided will be that which Aristotle[1] uses in his booke De mundo (if that booke were his.)
First, περὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ of those chiefe parts which are in it; not the elementary and æthereall (as he doth there) since this doth not belong to the elementary controversie, but of the Sea and Land, &c. Secondly, περὶ αὐτὴν παθῶν, of those things which are extrinsecall to it, as the seasons, meteors and inhabitants.
- ↑ à 1º. cap. ad 10m
