Chapter 9

As wee now wonder at the blindnesse of our Ancestors, who were not able to discerne such things as seeme plaine and obvious unto us. So will our posterity admire our ignorance in as perspicuous matters. _Keplar_ doubts not, but that as soone as the art of flying is found out, some of their Nation will make one of the first colonies that shall inhabite that other world. But I leave this and the like conjectures to the fancie of the reader; Desiring now to finish this Discourse, wherein I have in some measure proved what at the first I promised, a world in the Moone. However, I am not so resolute in this, that I thinke tis necessary there must be one, but my opinion is that 'tis possible there may be, and tis probable there is another habitable world in that Planet. And this was that I undertooke to prove. In the pursuit whereof, if I have shewed much weaknesse or indiscretion; I shall willingly submit my selfe to the reason and censure of the more judicious.

[Sidenote 1: _Nat. Quaest. l. 7. c. 25._]

[Decoration]

The Propositions that are proved in this Discourse.

Proposition 1.

_That the strangenesse of this opinion is no sufficient reason why it should be rejected, because other certaine truths have beene formerly esteemed ridiculous, and great absurdities entertayned by common consent._

By way of Preface.

Prop. 2.

_That a plurality of worlds doth not contradict any principle of reason or faith._

Prop. 3.

_That the heavens doe not consist of any such pure matter which can priviledge them from the like change and corruption, as these inferiour bodies are liable unto._

Prop. 4.

_That the Moone is a solid, compacted opacous body._

Prop. 5.

_That the Moone hath not any light of her owne._

Prop. 6.

_That there is a world in the Moone, hath beene the direct opinion of many ancient, with some moderne Mathematicians, and may probably be deduced from the tenents of others._

Prop. 7.

_That those spots and brighter parts which by our sight may be distinguished in the Moone, doe shew the difference betwixt the Sea and Land in that other world._

Prop. 8.

_That the spots represent the Sea, and the brighter parts the Land._

Prop. 9.

_That there are high Mountaines, deepe vallies, and spacious plaines in the body of the Moone._

Prop. 10.

_That there is an Atmo-sphaera, or an orbe of grosse vaporous aire, immediately encompassing the body of the Moone._

Prop. 11.

_That as their world is our Moone, so our world is their Moone._

Prop. 12.

_That tis probable there may bee such Meteors belonging to that world in the Moone, as there are with us._

Prop. 13.

_That tis probable there may be inhabitants in this other World, but of what kinde they are is uncertaine._

FINIS.

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[Transcriber's Additional Notes and Errata]

Works and Authors Cited in Sidenotes:

This is not intended to be a comprehensive list. A few sources could not be identified; others are so well-known, they did not need to be marked.

The following spellings and name forms are used consistently:

Austin = Augustine Blancanus the Jesuit(e) = Josephus Blancanus, Giuseppe Biancani Caelius = Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus Tycho = Tycho Brahe Nicholas Hill "a country man of ours". Hill the early atomist, not Hill (Montanus, van de Bergh) the printer. Keplar = Kepler (Johannes) Julius Caesar = Caesar la Galla, Giulio Cesare La Galla, Lagalla Maeslin = Maestlin (Michael) Rawleigh, Rawly = Raleigh (Sir Walter) Verulam = Francis Bacon (1st Baron Verulam)

Note also "sydera" for "sidera".

Albertus Magnus: _De quattuor coaequaevis_ ----: _De caelo et mundo_ Aristotle: _De Caelo_ Bede: _De ratione temporum_ Christopher Besoldus: _De Natura Populorum ejusque variatione, et de Linguarum ortu atque immutatione_ (1632) Josephus Blancanus (Giuseppe Biancani): _Sphaera mundi_ (Full Title: _Sphaera Mundi seu Cosmographia. Demonstrativa, ac facili Methodo tradita: In qua totius Mundi fabrica, una cum novis, Tychonis, Kepleri, Galilaei, aliorumque; Astronomorum adinventis continetur_) ----: _Aristotelis loca mathematica ex universes ipsius operibus collecta et explicata_ Tycho (Brahe): _Astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata_ Th. (Tommaso) Campanella: _Apologia pro Galileo_ (1622) Collegium Conimbricenses (Jesuits of Coimbra University): _Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis Societatis Jesu in quattuor libros physicorum Aristotelis de Coelo_ (1592) Cardinal de Cusa, Cusanus (Nicholas of Cusa/Kues, Nicolaus Cryffts): _De Docta Ignorantia_ Johannes Fabricius: _De Maculis in Sole Observatis, et Apparente earum cum Sole Conversione Narratio_ (1611) Text not identified by name. Libertus Fromondus (Libert Froidmont): _Meteorologicorum libri sex_ (1627) Galileo: _Nuncius Sidereus_ Camillus Gloriosus (Giovanni Camillo Glorioso): _De Cometis dissertatio astronomico-physica_ (1624) Isidore: _Originum_ Johannes Kepler: _Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo_ The name "Galileo" (or "Galilei") is sometimes included in the title, as "Diss. cum Nunc. Syd. Galil." ----: _Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae_ ----: _Astronomiae Pars Optica_ Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare La Galla): _De Phenomenis in Orbe Lunae_ (1612) Leonard Lessius: _De perfectionibus moribusque divinis_ (1620) This work is often cited as "De Moribus"; other early mentions are found in _Tristram Shandy_ and _The Anatomy of Melancholy_. Maeslin (Michael Maestlin): _Epitome Astronomiae_ (1610) Carolus Malapertus, Malapertius (Charles Malapert): _Austriaca sidera heliocyclia astronomicis hypothesibus illigata_ (1633) Jacobus Mazonius (Jacopo Mazzoni): _In universam Platonis et Aristotelis philosophiam praeludia sive de Comparatione Platonis et Aristotelis_ Johannes Eusebius (Juan Eusebio) Nieremberg: _Historia Naturae_ (1635) Augustinus Nifus (Niphus, Agostino Nifo) Quoted text not identified by name. Benedictus Pererius (Benito Pereira): _Commentariorum et disputationum in Genesim tomi quattuor_ (1591-99) Plutarch: _De facie in orbe lunae_ ----: _De tranquillitate animi_ Erasmus Reinhold: Commentary (1542, 1553) on Georg Purbach's _Theoricae novae planetarum_ Caelius = Lodovicus Caelius Rhodiginus (Lodovico / Luigi Ricchieri): _Lectionum antiquarum libri triginta_ Ruvio (Antonio Rubio): Commentary on Aristotle's _De Caelo_ (Julius Caesar) Scaliger: _Exotericae exercitationes ad Hieronymum Cardanum_ Christoph Scheiner: _Rosa Ursina sive Sol ex Admirando Facularum & Macularum suarum Phoenomeno varius_ Tostatus (Alonso Tostado): _In Genesis_

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Errors and Anomalies:

All but one occurrence of -que is written with a ligature. They have been expanded for this e-text.

though they have for a long time lien neglected _so in original: "lain"?_ +pollous ede kai oudena noon echontas+ _text reads +pellous+; last vowel in +echontas+ unclear_ both St. _Uincentius_and _Senafinus_ _"Senafinus" could not be identified, but cannot be Serafinus_ _Aristotle_ was the viol of Gods wrath _spelling "viol" as in original_ the world is much beholden to _Aristotle_ for all its sciences _text reads "it sciences"_ if there be more worlds than one _text reads "more words"_ [Sidenote] Ecclus. 43. 3. 4. _so in original: "Eccles."?_ [Sidenote to "Ptolome"] _I{o} Apost._ _reading unclear, text not identified: "I^o."?_ [Sidenote to "Rosa Vrsina"] _lib. 4. p. 2. cy. 24, 35._ _unclear: "ty." or error for "cp."?_ _Hebraeonia l. 2. c. 4._ _text unclear: "Hebraeoma"?_ and more especially _Malapertius_ _text reads "Mulapertius"_ but never confuted by any solid reason _text reads "coufuted"_ [Sidenote] ... _dissertatio / cum Nic. Hill._ ... _so in original: error for "dissertatio cum Nunc[ius] Sid[ereus]" (by Kepler)?_ vius qui ad experimenta haec contradicendi animo accesserant _so in original_ it might probably be deduced _text reads "de deduced"_ so _Ioach. Rlelicus_ _so in original: "Rheticus"?_ Others think[1] that there be some bodies _text reads "that there some bodies"_ [Sidenote] So _Bede_ in _d. de Mund. constit._ _single letter illegible: could be "fi" or "a"_ [Sidenote] Eusebius Nioremb. _Hist. Nat. _so in original: "Nieremberg"_ sententiam exsuscitare velit _text reads "excuscitare"_ that earth in the writings of _Capernicus_ and his followers _spelling as in original_ [Sidenote] _Lect. ant. l. 1. c. 15._ _text reads "Lect. aut l. 1"_ Nay this opposes his owne eye-witnesse _text reads "owne-eye-witnesse"_ that in the Moone there should be any mountaines _text reads "thete"_ _Olympus_, _Atlas_, _Taurus_ and _Enius_ _text unclear; may be "Emus": for Mt. Aenus?_ the 47th proposition in the first booke of elements. Therefore the whole line _A_ _G_ is somewhat more than 104 _"the 47th proposition" is better known as the Pythagorean theorem. "104" is presumably an error for "1004"; the correct figure is almost 1005_ [Sidenote] _Plat. de fac._ _so in original: "Plut[arch]"?_ [Sidenote] _Praefat. ad Austrica syd._ _so in original: "Austriaca"_ [Sidenote to Caelius] _Progym. 1._ [Sidenote to Tycho] _l. 20. c. 5._ _notes may be reversed: Tycho Brahe wrote a "Progymnasmata"_ because of the exuperancy of the light in the other parts _so in original: "exsuperancy"_ because they are farre neerer it than wee _text unclear_ a more chokie soyle like the Ile of _Creete_ _spelling as in original: "chalky"_ in his time tooke especiall notice _text reads "looke" but catchword has "tooke"_ such appearances may be salved some other way _so in original_ [Sidenote] _Carolus Malaptius de Heliocyc._ _so in original: Malapert(i)us_ 2. _Maeslin_ and _Keplar_ affirme, that they have seene some of these alterations. The words of _Maeslin_ are these (as I finde them cited.) [Sidenote] _Disser. 2. cum nunc. Galil._ _sidenote is attached to Maeslin quote, but work named is by Kepler_ there are some inhabitants in that Planet _text reads "inhabitans"_ The equality of their nights doth much temper the scorching of the day, and the extreme cold that comes from the one, require some space _wording as in original_ This part of the world is inhabited by men and beasts, and Plantes. _text reads "Planets"_ intellectuares habitatores _so in original: "intellectuales"?_ ex influentia ignili solis _adjective "ignilis" may have been invented by author cited_ but _Lessius_ thinkes that this opinion gives them too much roome _text reads "opi/on" at line break_ hee cals it a terrestriall starre _text reads "terrestraill"_ _Pererius_ fathers it upon _Strabus_ and _Rabanus_ _text reads "fathers is"_

Punctuation:

the Cities and Mountaines hanging." What shall wee thinke _marginal quotes continue through line beginning "shall wee"_ a propension in its subject _text reads "'its" with leading apostrophe_ But the position (say some) is directly against Scripture _opening parenthesis missing_ Scripturequae coelum pluribus realibus atque _"atque" written out (all other -que occurrences use ligature)_ more directly proved by _Maeslin_, _Keplar_, and _Galilaeus_ _no comma after "Maeslin"_ it seemed most / likely to _Camillus Gloriosus_, _Th. Campanella_ _text has period (full stop) for comma_ too much for to vent at the first: the chiefe thing _text reads "at the first. the"_ the words of _Fienus_, as they are quoted by _Fromondus_ in the above cited place, _Possunt maximae ..._ _text has "... cited place) _Possunt ..."_ _could also be:_ the words of _Fienus_ (as they are quoted by _Fromondus_ in the above cited place) _Possunt maximae vespere Dominicae Palmarum Anni 1605, in corpore Lunae _text reads "Anni 1605. in corpore"_ And this was the opinion of the _Cardinal de Cusa_ _text reads "de cusa"_ but to lead us along from the knowledge of one thing to another _"a/long" printed at line break without hyphen_

Printer's Errors:

Invisible letters or punctuation marks, supplied from context, are shown in {braces}.

2{.} Grosse absurdities have beene entertained [Sidenote] _Plutarch. de t{r}anq. anim._ [Sidenote] _Lib. 9. Architecturae{.}_ [Sidenote] Reinhold _comment. in Purb. Th{e}or. pag. 164._ [Sidenote] _In lib. de natur. rerum{.}_ [Sidenote] _De 4r. Coaevis.... Exercit{.} 62._ [Sidenote] _Plut. de plac. phil. l. 2. c. 13{.}_] [Sidenote] _Ex qua parte luna est transpi{c}ua non totum secundum superfi{ci}em, [Sidenote] _Albert. mag. de {c}oaevis. Q. 4. Art. 21._ [Sidenote] _S{c}alig. exercit. 62._ some others have thought it to be ver{y} much like a Fox Mihi autem dubium fuit nu{m}quam ... sese in conspectum da{t}uram But it may be againe obj{e}cted yet would the motion of i{t}s centre by an attractive vertue still hold it w{it}hin i{t}s convenient distance, so that whether their ear{t}h moved _"within": "i" missing, "t" invisible_ You may see this truth assented unto by _Blancanus_ the J{e}suit and if you obj{e}ct that the light which is conveyed for he confesses himselfe that he saw this by the glasse{.} our earth appeares a{s} brigh{t}

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Pagination:

_Pages 177-192 (printed as 175-190) are all one error: The eight pages printed on one side of the sheet forming signature N were misnumbered by -2._

118, 120 _read_ 18, 20 123 _reads_ 113 166 _reads_ 66 177, 180, 181, 184, 185, 188, 189, 192 _read_ 175, 178, 179, 182, 183, 186, 187, 190 209 _reads_ 107 210, 211 _read_ 208, 209 212, 213, 214 _no printed number_ 215 _reads_ 63