. A system of geography; or, A new & accurate description of the earth in all its empires, kingdoms and states. Illustrated with history and topography, and maps of every country ... things which Providence feem-cd willing to conceal: And as if really they hadfound out the Secret, have had the \^anity to im-pole their Difcoveries upon the World. Tis notto beexpedred, nor would it be proper at this time,to give the Reader an Account of all the feveralSchemes and Hypothefes that have been advanced,of the Univerfe in general, or of the feveral The-ories and Hiftories of our Earth in particular: A
. A system of geography; or, A new & accurate description of the earth in all its empires, kingdoms and states. Illustrated with history and topography, and maps of every country ... things which Providence feem-cd willing to conceal: And as if really they hadfound out the Secret, have had the \^anity to im-pole their Difcoveries upon the World. Tis notto beexpedred, nor would it be proper at this time,to give the Reader an Account of all the feveralSchemes and Hypothefes that have been advanced,of the Univerfe in general, or of the feveral The-ories and Hiftories of our Earth in particular: Andtherefore we Hiali only hint a little at themoft con-fiderable of em. Ptolemy was of Opinion, that the Earth was placedin the Center of the Univerfe, and that it flood fixtthere, whilft the Sun, Moon, and Stars made theirTour round it every day, each in their feveral Or-bits, and different diftances from it. He placed the -Moon neareft it j next to the Moon Mercury ^ then .remts, after her the Sw;/, beyond him AJars, thenJupiter^ and laftly Saturn^ and bq-ond him, thefist Stars, as you may fee in the follewing Scheme. srs- An Introdu^ion to Geography,s Ys TjEaia Fro I. omeI. This Situation of the World was univerfally re-ceived and approved of till about 200 years ago,that Copernicus difliking the Syftem, by reafon ofthat rapid motion which it fuppofed in the Planets,and much more in the fixt Stars •, which at this rateB!uft have moved many Millions of Miles in anhour : And befides, it did not {eem to agree exad-ly with feveral Obfervations that he had madeof the Courfe of the Heavenly Bodies : Whereforehe fet himfelf to find out another Scheme, whichmight better fatisfie and explain the feveral Appea-rances of thefe, and remove the difficulty concern-ing that rapid motion. He placed the Sun in theCenter of the World, and made the Earthy as wellas the other Planets, perform their Courfes about him. Next to the Sun he placed Mercury^ and nextto him VtKiis. The Earth, togethe
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