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OVRSE Tending TO PROVE that 'tis probable there may be another habitable World in that Planet. _Quid tibi inquis ista proderunt? Si nihil aliud, hoc certe, sciam omnia angusta esse._ SENECA. Praef. ad 1. Lib. _N. Q._ [Decoration] _LONDON_, Printed by _E. G._ for _Michael Sparl_ and _Edward Forrest_, 1638. [Decoration] _Perlegi haec +paradoxa+ & novitatis gracia typis mandari permitto._ Mart. 29. 1638. THO. WEEKES _R.P._ _Episc. Lond. Cap._ _Domest._ [Decoration] To the Reader. _If amongst thy leisure houres thou canst spare any for the perusall of this discourse, and dost looke to finde somewhat in it which may serve for thy information and benefit: let me then advise thee to come unto it with an equall minde, not swayed by prejudice, but indifferently resolved to assent unto that truth which upon deliberation shall seeme most probable unto thy reason, and then I doubt not, but either thou wilt agree with mee in this assertion, or at least not thinke it to be as farre from truth, as it is from common opinion._ _Two cautions there are which I would willingly admonish thee of in the beginning._ 1. _That thou shouldst not here looke to find any exact, accurate Treatise, since this discourse was but the fruit of some lighter studies, and those too hudled up in a short time, being first thought of and finished in the space of some few weekes, and therefore you cannot in reason expect, that it should be so polished, as perhaps, the subject would require, or the leisure of the Author might have done it._ 2. _To remember that I promise onely probable arguments for the proofe of this opinion, and therefore you must not looke that every consequence should be of an undeniable dependance, or that the truth of each argument should be measured by its necessity. I grant that some Astronomicall appearances may possibly be solved otherwise then here they are. But the thing I aime at is this, that probably they may so be solved, as I have here set them downe: Which, if it be granted (as I thinke it must) then I doubt not, but the indifferent reader will find some satisfaction in the maine thing that is to be proved._ _Many ancient Philosophers of the better not
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