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12 here I mut beg, that the more proficient in the science will not think I inult their judgment, by laying down the firt rudiments of it. I wish firt to inform, and bring forward young minds, and then I mean to advance, and find amuement for them, if not intruction.

The Circle of the Zodiac is divided into twelve parts, called Signs, and each ign into 30°; their names and characters are as follow:

The firt ix of these are called Northern Signs, and poes that half of the Ecliptic that is on the north ide of the Equinoctial, beginning at the first point of Aries, and ending at the lat point of Virgo; the latter ix are called Southern Signs, and poes the Southern half of the Ecliptic, beginning at the firt point of Libra, and end at the lat degree of Pisces, where Aries begins again: and note, that thee igns are different from the Contellations which bear their names; for, though they were formerly ituated together, yet now, by a low retrograde motion of the Equinoctial points, at the rate of about 50 econds per year, or one degree in 72 years, the Contellation Aries is got into the Sign Taurus, and o of the ret, till the Stars of Pisces are now in Aries; this motion is made upon the Poles of the Ecliptic, contrary to the ucceion of the Signs, and is called the Preceion of the Equinoxes. The