ANCIENT BOOK
WILKINS’S ANCESTOR WRITES ON MOON WORLD VALUE TO SCIENCE NEW YORK, Tuesday. Sir Hubert Wilkins is to attend a presentation tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History to the American Interplanetary Society of a book. “The Discovery of a New World in the Moon.’’ with its appendix, “The Possibility of a Passage Thither.” The book is a discourse tending to prove that, the moon may be habitable. It was written in 163 S and the appendix ill 1640 by the explorer's ancestor, John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, several of whose ideas on Antarctic meteorology Sir Hubert worked out from the bishop's manuscripts.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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105ANCIENT BOOK Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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