OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 



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The names and characters of the 12 signs are as fol- LECT. 

 low : beginning at that point of the ecliptic where it ^x-v-x^ 

 crosses the equinoctial tu tLo northward, and reckoning 

 eastward round to the same point again. And the days 

 of the months on which the sun now enters tka signs, 

 are set down below them. 



Aries, 



T 



March 

 20 



Leo, 



ft 



July 

 23 



Virgo, 



Libra, 



August September 

 23 23 



Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, 

 t Yf ^ 



November December January 

 22 21 20 



Scorpio, 



October 

 23 



Pisces 

 X 



February. 

 18 



By remembering on what day the sun enters any 

 particular sign, we may easily find his place any day 

 afterward, whilst he is in that sign, by reckoning a de- 

 gree for each day ; which will occasion no error of con- 

 sequence in using the globes. 



When the sun is at the beginning of Aries, he is in 

 the equinoctial ; and from that time he declines north- 

 ward every day, until he comes to the beginning of 

 Cancer, which is 23$ degrees from the equinoctial: 

 from thence he recedes southward every day, for half 

 a year ; in the middle of which half, he crosses the equi- 

 noctial at the beginning of Libra ; and at the end of that 

 half year, he is at his greatest south declination, in the 

 beginning of Capricorn, which is also 231 degrees from 

 the equinoctial. Then, he returns northward from 



