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