Their observations of mountain ranges and other geographic and geological features on the Moon's surface was interpreted as equivalent to the discovery of a "new world" – as in two later works by John Wilkins, The Discovery of a World in the Moon (1638) and A Discourse Concerning a New Planet (1640).
Their observations of mountain ranges and other geographic and geological features on the Moon's surface were interpreted as equivalent to the discovery of a "new world" – as in two later works by John Wilkins, The Discovery of an Uncharted Land (1638) and A Discussion about a New Celestial Body (1640).