Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 105
ndicative of months, Aries corresponding with March,Taurus with April, &c. When the sun enters one sign the earthenters the opposite, as in the following diagram. Thus, when the earth enters the sign Libra at C, at the time ofthe vernal equinox, the sun, S, appears to enter the-opposite… … may be in, the opposite sign will rise at sunset, being 180°, orhalf a circle, distant from the sun. If the orbit of the earth wasa true circle, tlfe progress of the sun through the signs would beperformed with an equable motion ; but this is not the case, as wehave shown when speaking of the…
Astronomy · Meteorology · Geology · Paleontology
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta summo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamque astrologiam institutens. Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Joannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, et alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur. rationibusq[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur .. (1585)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cosmographiainqv00baro-160-63.webp)
