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Equinoctial Circle, Equator, or Equinox, is a great circle or line equally 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 beginning of Aries and that of Libra, so that one half declines towards the south. In this circle is comprehended the twelve constellations or signs, every sign containing thirty degrees in length, and twelve in breadth. Note also, that the first six are northern signs, and the last six are southern signs.

The Ecliptic Line, is a line imagined to go along in the midst of the Zodiac as a girdle, out of which the sun never goes; but, the moon and other planets are sometimes on the one side and sometimes on the other side, which is called their latitudes, only the fixed stars alter not their latitudes, whether great or small; but the longitude of a star is the arch, or parts of the ecliptic in degrees, between the beginning of Aries and the circle which passeth through the body of Aries, and the circle which passeth through the body of the stars, where the circles of the sphere or