Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1694 edition. Excerpt: ...Lights for he commanded, and they were created. As for the motion of the Sun; First, it hath a daily motion round about the Earth, by which it makes the Day and Night. Secondly, It hath a Yearly motion round about the Heavens, whereby it causeth Summer and Winter, Springtime and Harvest: This course it finisheth in $65 Days 5 Hours, 49 Minutes, which odd $ Hours 49 Minutes, in 4 Years makes up almost one whole Day, and is therefore added every fourth Year or Leap-year for otherwise, in a little time the Month of June would fall in the Winter, and December in the Summer, as it did in the Egyptian year. But this was thus rectified by Julius Caesar, which account, though it was far more exact than any of the former, yet by reason that those odd hours and minutes did lack 44 minutes of one day in those 4 years, it hath caused some alteration in the year since his time. For whereas the Sun in his time entred into Aries on the 25th of March, it now enters into Aries about the 10th of March; and hereupon Pope Gregory Anno 182, caused ten days to be cut off f rom, the old Account, and this is the reason the Account beyond Sea is ten days before ours, which makes their Easter, and all their Movable Feasts, fall most times before ours. The distance of the Sun from the Earth, according to 7ycho, is 1150 Semidiameters of the Earth, which reduced into Miles, is 4780450 Miles. The diameter or breadth of the Suns body is 42600 Miles; and the compass thereof is 133886 Miles; so that thecompafrof the Sun is above % times the compass of the Earth: But if you have regard to to the solid contents thereof, then the Sun by this Account is 155 times bigger than the Earth. As for the daily compass which the Sun runs in the Heavens, it is 28789124 miles; so that every h...
