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COSMOLOGY]. -- [WILKINS, John (1614-1672)]. A discourse concerning a new world & another planet . London: John Maynard, 1640. 2 vols. in one, 8 o (163 x 110mm). Engraved title by W. Marshall (showing Copernicus and Kepler, with a diagram of the solar system), woodcut diagrams and illustrations (soiled, edges browned). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked, worn). Third edition of vol.1, FIRST EDITION of vol.2, containing a section proposing the idea of voyaging to the moon, in the context of Wilkins's endorsement of the new arguements of Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo that the earth was in fact a planet. STC 25641; Norman 2240. -- William WHISTON (1667-1752). A new theory of the earth, from its original, to the consummation of all things . London: R. Roberts for B. Tooke, 1696. 8 o (189 x 120mm). Engraved frontispiece of solar system, 7 engraved plates, engravings in the text. Contemporary panelled calf, speckled edges (rubbed, joints cracked). A complex attempt to explain the Biblical account of creation and cosmology by the Newtonian theory of cometary motion. Wing W-1696; Norman 2229 -- John WOODWARD (1665-1728). An essay towards a natural history of the earth: and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals...with an account of the universal deluge. London: Ric. Wilkins, 1695. 8 o (176 x 111 mm). Half-title (imprimatur on verso). Early 18th-century panelled calf (rubbed). Bound with Woodward's Remarks upon the ancient and present state of London (1723). FIRST EDITION. A controversial theory of the earth which attempted to demonstrate the theory that fossils were the result of the Biblical Deluge, but nevertheless "valuable for its methadology (combining first-hand observation with a unified method of obtaining information from distant sources), [and] its strong argument in favor of the organic origin of fossils" (Norman). Wing W3510; Norman 2262. (3)