 | Richard John King - Cathedrals - 1869 - 288 pages
...Essay towards a Philosophical Language,' 1668 ; • ' The Discovery of a New World, or a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon,' published in 1638, when he was only twenty-four years of age ; a book, says Hallam, which is "one of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...been on the verge of stumbling -upon the Telegraph ; Discovery of a New World, a discourse teiuliug to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable world in the moon, with a discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither ; Discourse concerning a New Planet,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - American literature - 1873 - 348 pages
...if he had been on the verge of stumbling upon the Telegraph ; Discovery of a New World, a discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable world in the moon, with a discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither; Discourse concerning a New Planet,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...mathematical works ; and in early life (1638), published The Discovery of a New World; or a Discourse eir use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure, by diver War Id in the Moon: wit ft a Discourse concerning the Possibility of a Passage thither. In this ingenious... | |
 | Julius Paludan - Comparative literature - 1878 - 356 pages
...altfor nær beslægtet med vort Emne til at forbigaas. Det er: Discovery of a new world or a Discourse tending to prove, that it is probable, there may be another habitable world in the Moon, with a discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither, 3d. ed., Lond. 1640 (første Udg.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...mathematical works; and in early life (1638), published' The Di-rovery of a New World; or a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the Possibility of a Passage thither.' In this ingenious but fanciful... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...then an ingenious and fanciful young man, published his " Discovery of a New World, or a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the Possibility of a Passage thither." This work has no serious interest,... | |
 | Franz Heinrich Reusch - Index librorum prohibitorum - 1885 - 900 pages
...steht im Index nur die 1638 anonym erschienene Schrift The discovery of a new world or a discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable world in the moon, in der französischen Uebersetzung: Le monde dans lune, divisé en deux livres, le 1. prouvant que... | |
 | W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 pages
...His most famous work has had many imitators; namely, " The Discovery of a New World; or a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the possibility of a Passage thither." In its lively pages he starts... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1889 - 242 pages
...Wllkins' works, as given in the Bibliotheca Britannica, are: (1) Discovery of a New World, or a discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable world in the Moon. 1638. 8vo. Part 1st. Lon. 1640. 8vo. Anon. Lond. 1684. 8vo. (2) Discourse concerning a Nnv Planet;... | |
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The Discovery of a New World ; or, a Discourse tending to prove that it is probable there may be another habitable World in the Moon ; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither. 
