The young gentleman and lady's philosophy : in a continued survey of the works of nature and art by way of dialogue . out it, I could never have attained to any di-ftinil or clear Ideas of fuch a new and complicated Syf-tem of mundane Changes ; and from this firft Example, Ican plainly forefee, that, if you remove the Poles of theWorld backward, through another Qiiarter of a Circle aboutthe Poles of the Ecliptic, thofe Alterations and Changes willftill appear much greater than before, with refpedt to theTimes, Seafons, Motions, and various Phsenomena of thC:heavenly Bodies. Clean. Indeed they
The young gentleman and lady's philosophy : in a continued survey of the works of nature and art by way of dialogue . out it, I could never have attained to any di-ftinil or clear Ideas of fuch a new and complicated Syf-tem of mundane Changes ; and from this firft Example, Ican plainly forefee, that, if you remove the Poles of theWorld backward, through another Qiiarter of a Circle aboutthe Poles of the Ecliptic, thofe Alterations and Changes willftill appear much greater than before, with refpedt to theTimes, Seafons, Motions, and various Phsenomena of thC:heavenly Bodies. Clean. Indeed they will; and you fliall fee by my removingthe Poles to the Places you mentioned, what an Afpedl: theHeavens will have in fo diftant a Period as 13000 Years hence, The Poles are now fixed diametrically oppofite (on the other Side of the Poles of the Ecliptic) to the Place they a prefent poflefs ; and now, as the Globe revolves, you f© what wonderful Mutations enfud; for now that very Starwhich is our North Pole, and appears fixed, will, in that Ag(©f the World, appear to defcribe a Circle round the then Nortl Poll. and Lai>y\ Philosophy. 8i. Pole of 94.° Diameter ; that it will tranfit the Meridian at 8° : 30 to the South of our Zenith, on ooe Part, and de-fcend fo low as to be within 5° : 30 of the Horizon on the other. The Seafons of the ^Year are then diametrically oppofite to what they now are in the Calendar iour Midfummer-day wiJl then be when the Sun enters theiirfl: Sine of Capricorn^ and the firft Degree of Cancer will bofarther diftant from the North Pole at that Time, and will thenbe the Winter Solftice : Alfo, the Vernal and Autumnal Equi-noxes will then have interchanged their Days. > The Conftellations within 23° : 30 of the Southern Pole of theEcliptic on one Part, will then be vifible above our Horizon ;as Mufca, Crofters, Apits, Triangulum Aujlrale, i^c. and, onthe other Hand, many Stars of the firft Magnitude will thenentirely difappear from our View,
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