The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins ... To which is prefix'd the author's life, and an account of his works / [John Wilkins].

John Wilkins

Date:: 1708

Credit: The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins ... To which is prefix'd the author's life, and an account of his works / [John Wilkins]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$i] y°u reP y? c^at t^en according to this,, there lUit be more Centres of Gravity than one ,• I an- ' . ^ls yery probable there are ; nor can. we well onceive what any piece of the Moon would do, be- ig fevered from the reft in the ft ee and open Air, ut only return unto it again. A -An°uh?r .ArSument '1C had from his Mailer Plato, MetM hat the.e is hue one World, becaufe there is But /. u. c.8. ne firit Mover, God. . Diog. Infirma etiam eft hxc ratio (faith Zanchy) • and we trt' l‘k' £^e Confequence, fince a Plurality r Worlds doth not take away the unity of the firit /lover, Utenim forma fubilantialis, fic frimum efficient fparentem folummodo multiplicit,atem induit per fienatarri Mtenam (faith a Countryman of ours.) As thefub- VicMdk :anHal. Form, lo the efficient Caufe hath oniv an phihMk' ppeanng Multiplicity from its particular Matter, ft/A ,ou may fee this Point more largely handled, and ’ ' aeie Arguments more fully anfwered by Plutarch in B hook Why Oracles are Silent, and Jacob Carpets- mus in his Comment on Alcinous. « r But our Oppofites, the Interpreters themfelves, wno too often do jurare in verba mariftri) will’ rant that there is not any ilrength in thefe Confe- uences -, and certainly then fuch weak Argument ould not convince that wife Philofopher, who in is other Opinions was wont to be fwayed by the .rengt and power of Reafon ,• wherefore I ihould “au-thl2'Vh5 he liad fome by-refpedr, which' i _ e im fir ft ailent to this Opinion, and afterwards n!efc,° Pf0)? Perhaps it was becaufe he feared i pleale his Scholar Alexander of whom tis re- Plutarch. [ted, that he wept to hear a Deputation of another de fmi- [or 7 (ince he had not then attained the Monar- anim' \ y 01 this j his reitlefs wide Heart would have e- ' .eemed this Globe of Earth not big enough for him, [ here had been another; which made the Satyriit ty ot ram, 1 nZEfimi • A H ■ ■■ r. * %$