The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets; Or, Conjectures ... and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1722. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... But some Body may perhaps object, Booki. and that not without reason at first 1 sY? sight, that the Planetary Inhabitants it's eJe'not likely are destitute of all refined Know-contrary ledge, just as the Americans were before they had Commerce with the Europeans. For if one considers the Ignorance of t hose Nations, and of others in Asia and Africa equally barbarous, it will appear as if the main Design of the Creator in placing Men upon the Earth was that they might live, and, in a just fense of all the Bleflings and Pleasure they enjoy, worship the Fountain of their Happiness; but that some few went beyond the Bounds of Nature in their Enquiries after Knowledge. There does not want an Answer to these Men. For God could not but foresee the Advances Men would make, in their enquiring into the Heavenly Bodies: that they would discover Arts useful and advantageous to Life: that they would cross the Seas, and dig up the Bowels of the Earth. Nothing of all this could happen contrary to the Mind and Knowledge of the Infinite Author of all Things. And if he Booki. he foresaw these Things would be, lvsjhe so appointed and destin'd them to humane kind. And the Studies of Arts and Sciences cannot be said to be contrary to Nature, since in the search thereof they are employ'd: especially if we consider how great the natural desire and love of Knowledge, rooted in all Men is. For it's impossible this should have been given them upon no Design or Account. But they will urge, that if such a Knowledge is natural, if we were born for it, why are there so very few, especially in Astronomy, that prosecute these Studies? For Europe is the only Quarter of the Earth in which there have been any Advancements made in Astronomy. And as for the Judicial Astrology, which pretends to for...