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 too? It shall never be, let it be never so silly; I remember what Butler saith:

but I ha'n't Time to quarrel with you, and to dispute it out with you now; pray, therefore, Sir, go on, about the Sun's Motion, a little farther.

must know then, Madam, said I, that these venerable Star-Gazers, finding the Sun apparently to run thro' this Zodiac, in twelve Months, or a Year's Time, assigned one part of the Circle to a Day's Motion; and because there are but a few more than 360 Days in a Year, they supposed this Circle of the Sun's Annual Motion, to be divided into 360 equal Parts, which they called Degrees, as I told you before; and hence all Circles on the Globes came to be divided after the same manner.

I thank you, sir, said she, now this Matter begins to clear up to me; have