OF  THE  GLOBES.
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Aries  Y,  Taurus  8,  Gemini  II,  Cancer  go,
Leo  g,  Virgo  m,  Libra  ,  Scorpio  m,
Sagittarius  T,  Capricornus  V,  Aquarius  ,
Pisces  ).
Upon  my  sather's  globes,  just  under  the  ecliptic, ¬
  the  months,  and  days  of  each  month,  are
graduated,  for  the  readier  fixing  the  artificial  sun
upon  it's  place  in  the  ecliptic.
The  two  points  where  the  ecliptic  crosses  the
equinoctial,  (the  circle  that  answers  to  the  equator ¬
  on  the  terrestrial  globe)  are  called  the  equinoctial ¬
  points;  they  are  at  the  beginnings  of
Aries  and  Libra,  and  are  so  called,  because  when
the  sun  is  in  either  of  them,  the  day  and  night  is
every  where  equal.
The  first  points  of  Cancer  and  Capricorn  are
called  solstitial  points;  because  when  the  sun  arrives ¬
  at  either  of  them,  he  seems  to  stand  in  a
manner  still  for  several  days;  in  respect  to  his
distance  from  the  equinoctial,  when  he  is  in  one
solstitial  point,  he  makes  to  us  the  longest  day;
when  in  the  other,  the  longest  night.
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