The Discovery of a World in the Moone

other hidden and unknown truths. Since it must needs be a great impediment to the growth of sciences for men to still plod on upon beaten principles, as if they were afraid of entertaining anything that may seem to contradict them. An unwillingness to take such things into examination is one of those errors of learning in these times observed by the judicious Verulam. Questionless, there are many secret truths which the ancients have passed over, that are yet left to make some of our age famous for their discovery. If by this occasion I may provoke any reader to an attempt of this nature, I shall then think myself happy, and this work successful.