APPENDIX, 



CONTAINING 



NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



No. I. p. 23 Illustration of the Rate of Motion 

 in the Heavenly Sadies, on the supposition that 

 the earth is at rest. 



THE distance of the sun is about 95 millions 

 of miles; consequently, the diameter of the cir 

 cle he would describe around the earth would be 

 190 millions, and its circumference 597,142.857, 

 which forms the extent of the circuit through 

 which he would move in 24 hours, if the earth 

 were at rest. This number divided by 24, gives 

 25,880,952, the number of miles he would move 

 in an hour ; and this last number, divided by 60, 

 gives 414,682, the number of miles he would 

 more in a minute. The nearest star is reckon 



ed to be at least 20,000,000.000,000, or twenty 

 billions of miles distant from the earth ; conse 

 quently, its daily circuit round our globe would 

 measure more than 125,000.000,000,000 miles. 

 This sum divided by 86,400, the number pf se 

 conds in a day, would give 1,454,861,111, or 

 somewhat more than one thousand four hundred 

 millions of miles, for its rate of motion in a 

 second of time a motion which, were it actuallv 

 existing, would, in all probability, shatter the 

 universe to atoms. 



The unlearned reader may, perhaps, acquire 

 a more distinct idea of this explanation from the 

 following figure: 



Let the small circle A, in the centre, represent round the earth every 24 hours. The line A B 

 -he earth, and the circle B C D E the orbit will represent the distance of the sun from the 

 f the sun, on the supposition that he moves earth, or 95 millions of miles; the line B D the 



