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15 on this Earth, to be in a traight line, or in conjunction with ome one of the Stars; but as the Earth revolves in its orbit, the Sun will apparently leave this Star, and eem to pas from the right to the left, or from Wet to Eat with repect to the Stars, 'till it hath paed over all the Stars in it's path quite round the Heavens in one year; and here it is evident to the undertanding of every one, that this apparent motion of the Sun, aries from the real motion of the Earth in its orbit round the Sun, and the path, or circle that the Sun appears to decribe in the Heavens, is called the Ecliptic; and note, that this ame path would be traced out by the Earth in its annual motion, to a beholder in the Sun, with only this difference–that when the Sun appears to us to be in Aries, the Earth would appear to a olar pectator to be in Libra, and o always with ix igns, or 180° difference;—while the Earth is performing its annual coure round the Sun, it turneth round upon an imaginary axis in every 23 hours, 56 minutes, from Wet to Eat, with its inhabitants, to whoe ight, all the celetial bodies mut of coure appear to move the contrary way, viz. from Eat to Wet; for, the enible Horizon being an opaque, olid, and apparently level expane, doth always conceal the lower Hemiphere from our ight, but as the whole Earth continues to revolve upon the Poles of the Equinoctial, from Wet to Eat, the eatern part of the Horizon will be depreed below thoe Stars, or celetial bodies, that were before below it, and inviible, and they will become viible to our ight, and are then