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Equinoctial circle, Equator, or Equinox, is a great circlocircle [sic] or line, oquallyequally [sic] distant from the two poles of the world, dividing the sphere in the midst.

Zodiac is a broad oblique circle, crossing the equinoctial in two opposite places, viz., in the boginningbeginning [sic] of Aries and that of Libra, so that one half declines towards the south; and in this circle is comprehended the twelve constellations or signs, every sign containing thirty degrees in length, and twelve in breadth. NotoNote [sic] also, that the first six are northern signs, and thothe [sic] last six southern signs.

The Ecliptic linoline [sic], is a line imagined to go along in thothe [sic] midst of the Zodiac as a girdle, out of which the sun never goes; but the moon and othcrother [sic] planets are sometimes on the one side, and sometimes on thothe [sic] other side, which is callcdcalled [sic] thcirtheir [sic] latitudcslatitudes [sic], only the fixed stars alter not their latitudes, whether great or small; but the longtitudelongitude [sic] of a star is the arch, or parts of the ecliptic in degrees, betweonbetween [sic] the beginning of Aries, and the circle which passeth through thothe [sic] body of the stars; where note, that