. The Compleat geographer, or, The chorography and topography of all the known parts of the earth [microform] : to which is premis'd an introduction to geography, and a natural history of the earth and the elements ... to which are added maps of every country, fairly engraven on copper, according to the latest surveys, and newest discoveries, most engrav'd by Herman Moll. Geography; Geography; Natural history; Atlases, British; Géographie; Géographie; Sciences naturelles; Atlas britanniques. to GEOGRAPHY. Vlt Chap. II. Of the SPHERE. The ARTiriC^r-S^'^-^AL 5pHERL Jxii, Ml!. ,... THE Spher
. The Compleat geographer, or, The chorography and topography of all the known parts of the earth [microform] : to which is premis'd an introduction to geography, and a natural history of the earth and the elements ... to which are added maps of every country, fairly engraven on copper, according to the latest surveys, and newest discoveries, most engrav'd by Herman Moll. Geography; Geography; Natural history; Atlases, British; Géographie; Géographie; Sciences naturelles; Atlas britanniques. to GEOGRAPHY. Vlt Chap. II. Of the SPHERE. The ARTiriC^r-S^'^-^AL 5pHERL Jxii, Ml!. ,... THE Sphere Is an Tiiftrument, confift- ing of Circles which Aftronomeis have imagi- ned in the Heavens, and invented for the more cer- tain and eafic exprefllnu the Motion of the Planets, &c. The Plclure of it we have here exhibited, and the Defcripticn of it is as follows. An jixis pafTes Diametrically thro' it, upon which the whole is fuppos'd to Turn, exprefs'd in the Cut by a fingle Line. The two extream Points thro' which the /4xis pafles are the two PaUs, tlie one North, and the other South, the former call'd the Arctici. from the Gretk Word 'Af»1®-, a Bear, becaufe it is plac'd near that Conftel- lation in the Heavens, and the latter jlmantick, at be- ing oppofite to it. The Circles are Eleven in number, whereof feven are call'd the Larger, the other four are Smaller. The Larger are the Mfuator, the Meridian, the ZoHi- ack, the Edipticit, the Two Colures, and the Horizon ; thefe are of the Circumference of the whole Globe. The fmaller ate the Two Tropieki, and tlie Two PtUr Gircltt. The /Equator divides the Sphere into Two Equal ^1'""": Parts, call'd the Northern and Southern Hemifoheres. Zolh'S^''' 'Tis alio call'd the Equinoftial Line, becaufe when the Lin:. Sun (or rather the Earth) pafles under it, the Day and Night is equally long all over the Earth . Which comes to pafs twice a Year, vit. Mur. ii. and Sept. ii. On this Line are computed th
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