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12 the Orbs the Planets move in, in that order that they are placed round the Sun, drawn as near as can be in their true Proportions, like what you have een in my Clock at home. The econd hows the Proportions of their Magnitudes in repect of one another and of the Sun, which you know is upon that ame Clock of mine too. In the firt the middle Point or Center is the Place of the Sun, round which, in an order that every one knows, are the Orbits of Mercury, Venus, the Earth with that of the Moon about it; then thoe of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn: and about the two lat the mall Circles that their Attendants move in: about Jupiter four, and about Saturn five. Which Circles as well as that of the Moon are drawn larger than their true Proportion would admit, otherwie they could not have been een. You may eaily apprehend the Vatnes of thee Orbits by this, that the ditance of the Earth from the Sun is ten or twelve thouand of the Earth’s Diameters. Almot all thee Circles are in the ame Plane, declining very little