and batter and thunder down the strongest places and that in a moment those instruments should execute our will That by printing and the letters we might communicate our thoughts to another and write in a short time a number infinite of books and even write a thousand times faster then we speak transmit and leave to our posterity our exquisite conceptions and get an immortal name And that by the prospective glasses we might approach to objects far distant strengthen our sight and make us distinctly to see things sar remote If these things I say had been proposed to us in a time wherein farther speech and enquire had never more been made of it who had believed them but rather who had not laughed at them and derided the first motioner of them and yet experience daily sheweth the effects of these Inventions to be true So the former Ages did condemne as hereticks those who believed the Antipodes and this belief was a long time held for a false and ridiculous opinion Christophorus Columbus was rejected of divers Kings when he proposed to them the discovery of the West-Indies and yet his propositions have been found very true and have immortalised their Author So likewise do I hope that time will bring forth the truth of this my opinion which I do not produce to the light without many strong Reasons and the authority of the most learned men the holy Scripture it self is not repugnant and contradictory to it but rather leans much towards my opinion And as touching those Philosophers who grant it not some deny not but that this may be others dare not contradict it and others have so ridiculous reasons that I cannot imagine weaker can be found and considering all they no more then I have ascended into Heaven and therefore who ever hath the best Reasons ought to be believed which being doubtlesse on my side my opinion ought not at all to be esteemed ridiculous Democritus King of the Abderitanes constantly smiled because the World could not apprehend the multiplicity of Worlds I like him have also sufficient occasion to smile and laugh at those who are ignorant of the plurality of the Worlds and even to compare them to bruit beasts which eat the fruits of the Earth without considering whence they come to them for Man is lodged in this World to contemplate in it the wonders that God exposes to the sight of his eyes and to which end he hath given him a face looking upward for to look up to Heaven but he will not make use of his gifts nor enquire after the place of their habitation Why open ye not your eyes O ye learned and wise Men and why awake ye not out of your slumber and deep sleep Awake up the eyes of your Understanding and Reason towards the Heavens contemplating the wonderfull things thereof despise the earthly things and as true Philosophers consider the rest of Men in a dunghill having their thoughts low and Earthly Souls which not being able to stretch themselves beyond the limit of their weak activity dare even accuse those who by noble projects desire to lend them their hands for to draw them out of their ignorance Having then so many and so good Reasons and authority on my behalf I shall not longer fear those who scarce can find any for the confirmation of their opinion or what they have is so weak that the building that the edifice is upon tottereth and leans on every side therefore will I not fear those backbiting tongues which envy anothers good repute and fame which I already foresee in great number opened against me but I shall justly say that they accuse God and Nature of weaknesse and insufficiency and their own proper reason of incapacity Can it be possible that so many rare and great persons who in former Ages did believe it and whose memory is by us honoured and reverenced had erroneous opinions and that so many pertinent reasons should have no solid ground Could it be possible that you would not willingly hearken to those who desire to free you from your mistakes nor suffer your eyes to be unfolded when they be folded with the vail of Preoccupation No I hope that some of the most reasonable at least will be found who will adhere to me and take my part against the assaults of the ignorants who endeavour to discredit me thinking to obtain great glory for the endeavouring the overthrow of so great a project for that is their ordinary scope Alta petit livor praestant altissima venti Alta petunt dextrâ fulmina miss a Jovis That is Envy nothing but high things emulates As by the whirlwinds shaken are high States And the thunders of great Jupiter the god of gods Fall upon the Steeples and not upon the Valleys But I shall smile at them in my heart and applaud my self if none can be found to second me hoping that the Ages to come will produce men more reasonable and who better esteeming my conceptions will accuse this present Age of great ingratitude Chap. II. Proving the plurality of the Worlds by a reason taken from the place wherein are ingendred the Comets PRoclus Cardanus Telessius and others have observed That most of the Comets are formed not onely out of the Region of the Meteors but even far above the Moon and Tycho Brabe that great Astrologian who by his exquisite and rare Observations hath gotten an everlasting name discoursing of it hath asserted That all the Comets are formed above the Moon even according to Kepler as high as the Sun Now it 's Impossible for the vapours to pierce and penetrate into the fiery Region there to be changed into Comets even far above it considering that according to all the Philosophers Judgment the fiery Region is under the concavity of the Moon and so these Comets are formed out of the exhalations of other Lands which are the Starres it 's so clear and perspicuous that I cannot believe that any Man is so void of Reason as to deny it If it be objected That it cannot positively and certainly be known that the Comets are above the region of the Moon I shall send them to the School of Astrologie which teaches by true Rules and Demonstrations the way to measure all the bodies and their far distances from the earth the which Galileus a Person of great fame and renown in this our Age hath confirmed by such like Observations Chap. III. Proving the same by another Argument taken from the bignesse and continuancy of the Comets THE same Astrologers have observed That some Comets have so vaste and great bodies that it 's impossible to believe that the exhalations of this Earth could furnish them sufficiently with matter but I shall dare to go beyond and shall say That though all the Earth should be dissolved into vapours and exhalations yet it could not form so great Comets and of such long continuancy as those which sometimes have been seen
A NEW TREATISE PROVING A Multiplicity OF WORLDS That the Planets are Regions Inhabited and the Earth a Star and that it is out of the Center of the World in the third Heaven and turns round before the Sun which is fixed And other most Rare and Curious Things By PETER BORELL Counsellor and Physitian to the King of France London Printed by John Streater 1658. TO The Vertuous AND Most Renowned Gentleman Mr. Frederick Clodius Doctor in Physick His truly honoured Friend Worthy SIR THree considerations have induced me to offer these rude and unpolished lines to your Patronage and favourable acceptance The first is the Learning and fame of the Author of this Treatise who carrieth the same Title as Your Self The second is the worthinesse and great esteem and acuity of spirit of that Person of Honour Sir Kenelm Digby to whom it was offered by the Author The third is the worthiness wisdom and deep Learning wherewith You are indued adorned which that Noble Knight well knowing for an acknowledgment thereof hath presented this Book to your view as a piece of great novelty I shall not presume to implore your Protection for the subject but onely for this my rash attempt in the translating of it which if it may auspiciously be admitted into Your friendly estimation doubtlesse 't will find an universall acceptance amongst Persons of greatest Eminency All I humbly crave for the present is my boldnesse might be favourably excused since 't was my lawfull Ambition thereby to avoid Ingratitude However this Work be esteemed may your deserved good name and honor encrease more and more which is and shall be the constant Vote of Sir Your humbly devoted Servant D. Sashott A NEW TREATISE PROVING A Multiplicity OF WORLDS CHAP. I. Of the Plurality of Worlds in general being as a Preface to the following Chapters WE may truly say that Preoccupation is an horrid Monster which makes a strange havock in the spirits of Men hinders the progress of Sciences and causes Men to droop in a constant ignorance for they who by it are once prepossessed can judge of nothing by themselves censure the best opinions that are assert those of their Masters whether good or bad and having conceived a distaste of whatsoever checks what is contrary to their belief though grosse and ignorant bring forth nothing but contempts and blames against those who endeavour to open their eyes and root them out of the darknesse of their ignorance to draw them to the enjoyment of the true light and knowledg of things The which is more particularly practised now in this Age wherein we live wherein Men live but by imitation wherein learned Men are despised wherein they who have some particular and rare notions upon subject matters of great moment and concernment to mens knowledge are esteemed extravagant and ridiculous wherein no new proposition can be admitted But alas what may I hope seeing this evill is like a gangrene and hath taken so deep root that it hath robb'd men of their senses and feeling who by it are infected Considering that those who are most possess'd with it do not think so themselves to be What then may I expect who am going to propose some Novelties not of things that are in the Earth but even in the Heavens and not onely in the Heavens but also in the bodies of the Stars As soon as the Title of this Discourse shall appear to the eyes of Men they will condemn me before they hear me neither will they so much as read my Reasons and will rather live in ignorance then change their opinion and be as beasts in the World than know the secrets thereof Most men think it a shame to confesse that they are ignorant of some thing and that they are in the wrong for on the contrary it 's the way to find out the truth considering that new reasons are alwayes sought for what we esteem our selves ignorant of Mens ignorance is so great that the holy Scriptures have declared Mens knowledg to be nothing else but vanity and if we do not flatter our selves we shall find that we know nothing but is or may be controverted Divinity it self is not exempted from it and as for the other Sciences and Arts those great many Volumes that we have of them sufficiently testifie the same And this hath moved the Pyrrhonians and Scepticks to doubt and question all things and hath brought forth severall Books of the vanity of Sciences the Astrology the Medicine the Jurisprudence and the naturall Physick are daily moved and shaken and see their foundations totter Ramus did overthrow Aristotle's Philosophy Copernicus Ptolomey's Astrologie Paracelsus Galen's Physick So that every one hath followers and disciples and all appearing plausible We have much ado whom to believe and thereby are constrained to confesse that what we know is much lesse then what we know not I greatly esteem Michael Mountanus's Judgment who is the honour of our Age upon this point for it is consonant to reason and my opinion hereupon is for the most part agreeing with his and especially with that is the subject matter of this Treatise Amongst a thousand rare thoughts that he hath upon it he alledges a most exquisite similitude by which he compares learned persons to the ears of corn which being well fill'd do bow down their heads for after they have learned all Sciences and have consumed themselves in them they are constrained to confesse that they know nothing by the acknowledgment of that great Philosopher in these words Hoc unum scio quòd nihil scio I know this one thing that I know nothing If then we be ignorant of all things may we not yield that we can be ignorant of heavenly things especially and that they are praise-worthy who have endeavoured to raise their contemplations and meditations up into Heaven and having as it were loosened their Souls from their bodies have made it to wander and run through the Vaults and concavities of Heaven there to observe those things which were above our reach Our understanding being heavenly and our Soul full of knowledg perfection is not ignorant of these things but the lump corpulency of the body which is its prison hinders it freely to perform its functions it would willingly rise up and at every moment lenche it self up towards the place of its original but the weight of its body keeps it low and under and the mixture of the Elements wherewith the body is composed makes its agility dull and heavy If before the Invention of Artillery of Printing of Prospect-glasses and of infinite number of other Inventions that in these times are practised their effects had been told to us we had never believed them for if it had been asserted That with the powder without stirring we might kill beasts distant from us and not onely the beasts on the earth but also the fowls and birds flying high through the ayr throw down walls of Cities
Soul and by his exquisite Meditations rise up to the meditation and contemplation of these Worlds When once we are well acquainted with it and freed from all Preoccupation nothing can be found sweeter pleasanter and more consonant to truth What Patents and particular priviledges have they who believe the contrary that we should adhere to them and our belief should be ruled by them as if it were under their commands Men feign and forge to us five Zones in Heaven and seen other things that are nothing but dreams and foolish fancies as if they had been there above to see it We may say the same to them as Diogenes said to such other creatures How long is it since thou camest from Heaven It 's then as lawful for us to establish new Maxims as for them and to believe in the strength of our reason what we here have attempted and what others say with reason or appearance of truth O that Nature would once open us her bosome and plainly shew us the direction and Government of its motion with what is contained in those great and vaste bodies which sparkle and glister in Heaven What abuses and grosse mistakes should we find in all Sciences Chap. XXIII Wherein the same is proved by an Argument taken from the place where the Clouds stay without going farther WE have here above spoken of the Clouds and thence have drawn an Argument to assert this our opinion we may yet draw this from them viz. that the Clouds and vapours being light should ascend without limitation untill that they were lost from our sight if there were not some other terrestrial Globes in Heaven nor any other attraction then that of the Center of the Earth but we may observe even in the hottest of Summer that the Clouds do not ascend above 3. miles and the strongest vapours that are not above 30 miles whence we must infer that they ascend unto the limit of the activity and attraction of the center of the Earth not being able to go beyond because it would be to bend downward viz. towards the Center of some other terrestriall Globe But that I may better be understood it 's to be observed that as the Loadstone hath a certain inward virtue to draw iron or to move the Needle of the Sea-compasse unto such a distance and no farther so likewise the Earth which by the opinion of some is a great Loadstone whose circumference and activity is extended towards the Moon unto such a certain heighth and the other Stars also have such like circumference wherunto their virtue attraction may reach Insomuch that the Clouds having attained unto that distance which makes a middle between us and the Moon there they are stayed not being suffered to go beyond it because then they would descend towards the Moon or some other Stars which would be contrary to their nature which is to rise upward still so that if a ponderous body as a stone being cast up could go beyond the Earth's attractive point it would not fall back upon the Earth but upon that Star whose attractive Center should reach unto that place whither the stone was cast therefore hath Bacon said in his Book de progressu Scientiarum that Gilbert did not doubt incongruously That the bodies of weight and ponderosity being at a far distance from the Earth would by little and little forsake their motion towards things below Chap. XXIV Containing a Reason drawn from the Bird of Paradise THe new World discovered by our Fathers amongst those infinite riches and rare things it communicates to us makes us partakers of a Bird called by the Indians Manucodiata that is to say the Bird of God or of Paradise This Bird is so beautiful that no one in the Earth is to be compared to it its figure is of so rare a form and so extraordinary that never the like hath been found for it hath neither feet nor wings but is clothed with a skin of feathers made otherwise then that of other birds it 's not found but dead either upon the Earth or in the Sea no body ever saw its eggs nor its nest and it 's asserted that it lives by the Air this Bird never being found upon Earth is it not confonant to Reason that it may come from some other Starre where it lives and breeds and that having flown higher and beyond the attractive Center of that earth or Star where he lived he dyeth by changing his Ayr unto that which is not proper and natural and dying falls upon this Earth Now if birds be found in the Stars there also may other living Creatures be having all the same right of habitation And grant that what some object be true that it hath feet but that they are very short or that its feet are cut that it may appear the rarer yet it hinders not the consequence drawn from it provided that the other circumstances of its nature be true for if it hath feet it must be understood of some of its species onely for Aldrovandus mentions five or six sorts of them whereof some have feet and some none Chap. XXV Wherein is alledged an Argument taken from the Eclipses BEfore the Creation of this whole Fabrick God did inlighten himself and contemplate himself he was a sealed Book which at length is opened and hath set forth to the view that which remained in Himself wherefore the whole World is nothing else then an evident image an Idea of his hidden God-head he is through it all as our soul is throughout all our body and by his will encompasses all the motions of the spheres having spread through them all the Aires as a scrowl which folding it self away at the last day shall be reduced to its former Silence or rather to Nothing This wonderful order thus by him established may be seen in the constant and unchangeable course of the Planets upon which the Astrologians make some certain Almanacks for many years together and foretell the eclipses of Ages to come without missing a moment of time These Stars being all of one and the same nature do eclipse one another the Earth eclipses the Moon the Moon the Sun and so all the rest if their small body is not overcome by the bignesse of those they intend to darken as it s testified by Averroe's Observation who hath seen Mercury in the center of the Sun which seemed to grow in it its light if it hath any being covered and put out Now from these Eclipses or want of light in the Stars we may draw this strong Reason for the assertion of our Position for it sheweth and verifieth that they are of an earthly nature and that their light is borrowed the Moon appears black when the Earth hinders it to receive light from the Sun and divers Philosophers have believed that all the Stars do borrow their light of the Sun they are then obscure and thick of their own nature and consequently earthy and may have
which is the least and meanest of all Chap. VIII Proving the same by the Creation multitude and society of things God with respect be it spoken finding himself weary of solitarinesse did in a manner go out of himself by the Creation and poured himself as if it were wholly into Creatures and commanded them to multiply and is it not also more meet and convenient to his goodnesse and Divine glory to have made one whole world alone as an Empire adorned with varieties of worlds as with Provinces and Cities and that these divers worlds be the habitations of so many Citizens and numberlesse Inhabitants of divers kinds and that all these things be created for the praise and everlasting glory of their Maker and that the Sun be in the midst of them to inlighten them all equally Chap. IX Confirming the Plurality of the Worlds by the privation of Mens Sciences and Knowledg after Adam's Sin THis Doctrine of many Worlds or Globes inhabited is not repugnant to the holy Scriptures which do onely discover to us the Creation of that which we inhabit of which they even speak what they mention in a discourse more mystical then clear onely briefly mentioning the other creatures of the world for to yield greater occasion of admiration then of knowledg to mens weak spirits of old fallen from the knowledg of Sciences this obscurity of the truth and these darknesses of Mens understanding have been part of the pains and miseries that Adams sin drew upon us by reason whereof Man was excluded from the delights of Paradise from the satisfaction that is in the knowledg of Sciences from the true knowledg of the nature of heavenly things that he who had raised himself up to the wicked desire and appetite of forbidden things might justly be deprived of the knowledg that had been granted him Chap. X. Containing a Reason drawn from this That the Earth is not the Center of the World but the Sun With a description of Copernicus his Sphere THeophrastes writes That Plato in his old age repented to have placed the Earth in the Center of the World and St. Chrysostome saith That the seat and scituation of the earth is not known and after him Nicolas Copernicus that great Astrologer who after long study in Astrology hath thereof known the falshood did so well confirm this opinion and unto this day hath rendred it approved by the best and rarest spirits of these Ages that I doubt not but that the Reason I thence intend to draw will be sufficient and pertinent enough he hath grounded his opinion upon admirable demonstrations which have overthrown the ancient Astrology yet without overturning the Science but he did onely find the truth and the same predictions aspects and other needful things with his new Maximes which have established this Science with much more perspicuity and certainty he settles the Sun in the Center of the World where it is immoveable as a great Torch in the middle of the world as a great King upon his Throne whence he rules all the heavenly Globes which are nothing but Earths like unto that we inhabit and round the earth he causes the Moon to move alone and round about the Sun Venus and Mercury then Mars Jupiter and Saturn and the other Spheres wrap all that in and so the Earth is found to be distant from the Center of the World and in the third Heaven so that being distant from the Center it may easily be said That the other Globes of equall or even of more vaste extension that are in equal distance from the center of the World which is the Sun may be Globes inhabited with Creatures whose true descriptions we know not the Figure of this may be seen in Campanella Gassendi and other Authors Chap. XI Proving the same thing by the motion of the Earth THe same Copernicus who after Philolaus Crotoniatus Eâ—phantes Ponticus Heraclides Nicetas Syracusius Democritus Timeus Aristarchus and Seleucus hath confirmed and renewed the opinion concerning the motion of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun gives us by this motion yet one means to prove our opinion for if the Earth be moved in the Aire and doth its course as the Stars far distant from the Center of the World what hinders that it be not put in the number of the Stars and contrariwise that the Stars which have such a motion be not earths and if they be Lands to what purpose if they be not inhabited and that we may say nothing without proof the next following Chapter shall prove the motion of the Earth Chap. XII Proving the Motion of the Earth WEe have here above promised to prove that the Earth moves because we have hence drawn an argument to confirm our Opinion though most men of understanding now adayes believe this motion of the Earth as better clearing the course of the Stars the order of the Heavens and the ebbing and flowing of the Sea yet I shall speak something of it The Heavens and the Stars had cheaten three thousand years all the World did so believe it untill that Cleanthes the Samian or as Theophrastes saith Nicetas of Syracuse was resolved that the Earth moved upon its prop. And in our Age Copernicus hath so well grounded this doctrine that he makes use of it for a rule to the consequences of Astrologie and freeth our spirit from those impossibilities that the Astrologians of old would make us believe for according to their judgment the first mobile should run in one minute 706640 miles and a half and that one and the same body had contrary motions Is it not more probable that the Earth turns round in 24. hours from the West to the East as in former Ages Timeus Locrenfis Philolaus Aristarchus Franciscus Marius and others did believe it Keplerus Longomonus Origanus Campanella and others of our Age have acknowledged this truth Galileus also seems to be of the same opinion when he saith That if the Earth did not move and turn the Sea could not have its flux and reflux We are as those who are in floating Islands or in a Ship who think that they move not but that on the contrary Sea-banks seem to flye from them for we cannot perceive the motion of the Earth as well because of its bignesse as because that we are not loosed from it But if in opposition to this be alledged those Texts of the Word of God which say that the Sun is moveable and the Earth fixt may it not suffice to answer That God speaks according to mens belief as he hath done upon a thousand of other subject matters as when he calls the Moon the great light though an infinite number of others are greater As for the Argument that is alledged from a stone cast down from high far from us if the Earth turn I answer That the Ayr roles and turns with the Earth and that a ponderous body falls down in so short a time that the Earth cannot by
inhabited and whether it is an Earth as ours and inclines sometimes to one sometimes to the other but at length it seems that he did believe it because he answers to divers objections that might be alledged against this opinion Bacon desires us seriously to cast our eyes upon the opinions of Pythagoras Philolaus Xenophanes Anaxagoras Parmenides Lucippus and of other ancient Philosophers indicating to us the truth thereof and wishes that some body would compose a book of their opinions this present discourse is part of it and therefore do we in some measure satisfie the desire of so rare a Person Lucretius whom we have here above quoted did confidently believe the same and hath testified it in divers places of his works and especially in these Verses besides those already alledged in the 18. Chapter Esse alios alibi terrarum in partibus orbes Et varias hominum gentes et saecla ferarum Huc accedit uti in summa res nulla sit una Unica quae gignatur et unica solaque crescat That is to say There are other new Worlds wherein is variety of Men and Beasts and of all other living creatures because that there is nothing groweth single and alone in this World nor in the earth nor in the Sea And in another place Praeterea cùn materies est multa parata Cùn loci est praeslò nec res nec causa moratur Ulla geri debet nimirum et confitier res Whereas there is store of matter and that the causes and the places do suffice this therefore ought to be declared and men must needs grant it so to be Paracelsus hath said That there are in Heaven some certain men called Tortelii and Penates for whom Christ did not die of whom some are without Soul and some not composed of the four Elements he yet names others never mentioned but by him Some of the Stoicks were of opinion not onely that there are people in the Moon but also in the body of the Sun And Campanella saith That those lively and bright habitations may have Inhabitants perhaps more wise and learned then we and better informed in those things that to us are incomprehensible But Galileus who in our Age hath perspicuously seen into the Moon hath observed That it may be inhabited seeing that there are Mountains in it c. for those parts in it that are the Plains and Valleys are obscure and dark and the Mountains are bright and clear For this cause have some said That the Stars do not shine but by reason of their irregularity asserting That we could not see them if they had not Mountains for to reflect and reverberate the light of the Sun Chap. XXXI Containing the Solution of some Objections that may be made against this Paradox of the World's Plurality BUt some may say There cannot be such Men as we in the Starres for they could not live there because men are divers even after the diversity of Countreys and those who ascend that high Mount Piracaca in the Indies dye there by reason of the too subtile ayr of the place To which I answer That those men must needs be different from us or indued with more robust and strong bodies then we or so well proportioned in the mixture of the Elements that that Ayr cannot be obnoxious and hurtful to them but that God hath so formed them that they may well live where he hath placed them but no where else And if we had never seen or heard of the Sea we could not be perswaded that Fishes could live in salt-water and that therein they could breed and grow for our food nor that those Countreys of the burning and frozen Zones could be inhabited So must we believe that God hath by prevention of inconvenience ordered all things for the best Here also might be objected the Incommodities and incongruences that might befall the Inhabitants of the Moon viz. the Meteors as the Clouds and other which would offend them and would hinder Plants to grow therein We answer to this That those Meteors are far enough from it and that rather they are lesse molested by them then we for Galileus did see with the telescope that it doth not rain upon the Earth of the Moon But it may be replyed How then do the plants grow To which I answer That they may grow in it not only by reason of the Moon 's natural humidity and moisture but also by the inundations of its Rivers as in Egypt where likewise no rain is seen I say farther That those Inhabitants of the Moon have no more ground to alledge these Objections being that when they look upon the Earth through the mists and clouds that incompass it they might doubt whether any creatures could be contained in it But hitherto we have answered none but weake objections Now come we to that with which our Opponents do arm themselves chiefly which is that of the Prince of the Aristotelists who as the Otthomans aymed to slay all his brothers that he might reign more securely viz. to beat down and suppresse all opinions contrary to his now this is his argument If there were many worlds the earth of those worlds would move towards our Earth or ours towards that of the other Worlds and so the other Elements of the other worlds would reach ours and so there would be nothing but a great tumult and Chaos This Argument is so weak that Magirus is constrained to speak in these terms when he alledges it not being himself able to find others because he maintains not the truth All these Reasons saith he and such like Philosophick Arguments cannot perspicuously demonstrate that there is but one World and Charles Rapineus speaks thus That it can but weakly be so perswaded Aristoteles could not comprehend what we have above said viz. That each world hath its center whereunto tend those heavy bodies that are in its sphere But he arguments upon a false foundation making the Earth to be the Center of all the worlds and allotting but one center for all his Argument would be good if his ground were good for what he saith was true it would be requisite that all heavy and ponderous things should tend towards our Center but there being many they also go into divers Centers for each Star hath its center that upholds it and though it be of a ponderous nature yet is it light in itself Having thus answered and so plainly and fully resolved the Objection of Aristoteles the grand Prince of Philosophers what may they expect who have not such pregnant Objections as his Chap. XXXII Continuing the Solution of divers Philosophers Objections against the Plurality of Worlds THese following Arguments are yet objected First That whereas there is but one principle and first Mover or but one God and first cause and that the world ought to answer in likenesse to its Architype there also ought to be but one World But we have here above shewed the contrary