Identifier: discoveryofworld00wilk (find matches)
Title: The discovery of a world in the moone
Year: 1638 (1630s)
Authors: Wilkins, John, 1614-1672
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: London : Printed by E.G. for Michael Sparke and Edward Forrest
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ht; lo alfo doe ^h,^ypartake of t!:c fame dtufts anddarknings, for when our Moowe iseclipfeJj iheniJ theirSanne dar-kened, auil when our Swnne iseclipfed, then isthcir Moonedc-priv^.^duficsligbr, as you may Qe 55 m^m Seal cxerc.6u afi umed byMf/7r>i. Quod ft ter- \^?^^A^^*m nobi^ ex alto Itcertt tntueri^) ^^ j qu.madmoditm dejicicHtem larum II ex longlnqm fj^xijre pojfftmm^vi^ \I dercmui tcmpire cclipjis foils terr^ \\ a!iqHJ>n \ 156 The Vi/coVery aliquam partem lumwe fi/if defi cere^ eodem fUne medo pent ex oppnfito lunn defcity It wee might behold this globe of earth *^ at the (amc diftance as we doe *^the Moonc in her defefts^wce might difcernc fome p^rc of it ** darkened in the Sunnts eclip- fcs, jdft fo as the M »one is ^ ii) hers. For as our Moone is cclipfed by the inrerpofition of our earth, lo is their Moone cclip- ftd by thcinterpoficionofcheirs. • The niannerof this mutuallillu- niination betwixt thefe two you may plainly difcernc in this Figure following. Where r^
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_.^,eg-?*^: 158 The difcoyery Where A reprefencs the Sun,B the Earth, and C theMooneNowfnpnofetheMooneC to bein arextiieofincreci(e,whenthercis oncly one fmall p^rt of her body enlighccnrd.chcn Che earth B willhave fuch 4 pare of if s vifiblc Hemifph-^arcdarkenedj as is propo?.lionable to that pare of the Mooncwhich is enlightened; and.isforfo much of che Moone, as the Sunbcames cannot reach unco^ ic re*cdves light from a proportional)pare of the earth which fliifiesupon ic, as vou may plainly per-ceive by the Figure, You fee then that agreementand fimihVude which there is be-twixt our earth arid the Moonc.No w the grraicft difFcrencc whichmakes chtmnnlikej is thi?, thatthe Moone enlightens our earthround about, Uhereas our earthgives light otiely to that Hemi-fpheareofthe Moone which isvifibic unto us, as may be cer-fainly gathered frooj the conftant appearance of a nc^ World, ^pearance of the fame fpots^wnich could not thus come topafl^, if the Moone had fuch a di-urnallmocion about

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