Time's telescope universal and perpetual, fitted for all countries and capacities : Containing perpetual tables, fitted to the old and new stile; ... Also the magnitudes and distances of the planets; and a brief discourse of all kinds of meteors ... To the whole is added, a short description of time, and how it ought to be redeem'd (1734)
Campbell, Duncan · London : Printed, and sold by J. Wilcox, J. Oswald ... and for the author... · leaf 105
Tropic, where the Sun en-ters about the lothof December^ and then Rifes whereyou fte this Line cut the Horizon i aad is at Noon aJittle above H on the Left Hand. The broad Circle between the Tropics is calld theEcliptic^ or the Suns Path ; thro the middle of whichpafles the Equinoctial Line. North… … THis Diagram reprefents the Manner in which theMoon is Eclipfed : The Moon refpeds theEarth for her Center, and n^oves round it once everyMonth. Now the (liadow of the Earth extending itfelf far beyond the Moon s Orbit, muft of necefTityfometimes fall in the Moons Way ; and this happenswhen fhe is…
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