Author:John Wilkins

Works

 * The Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
 * A Discourse Concerning a New Planet (1640)
 * Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger (1641) The first English-language book on cryptography.
 * Ecclesiastes (1646), a plea for a plain style in preaching
 * Mathematical Magick (1648)
 * A Discourse Concerning the Beauty of Providence (1649)
 * A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer: shewing what it is, wherein it consists and how far it is attainable by industry (1651)
 * Vindiciae academiarum (1654), with Seth Ward
 * An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (London, 1668), in which he proposes a new universal language for the use of natural philosophers.
 * Of the Principle and Duties of Natural Religion (London, 1675).

Works about Wilkins

 * Mentioned in Verse 21 of the Ballad of Gresham College