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thro* a Sign of the Zodiac in 194 of her Days ; and 
as her Axis has no Inclination, Ihe muft have a con- 
tinual Equality of her Days and Nights, without any 
Variation of Seafons, and fo her annual Motion can 
be of no other Ufe than to keep her from falling 
down to the Sun. 
But Bianchini gives a very different Account of 
her 5 which is, that her Axis inclines 75 Degrees 
from a Line fuppofed to be drawn perpendicular to 
the Plane of the Ecliptic (by which I fuppofe he 
means her own Ecliptic, and not the Earth's) 5 and 
that her diurnal Motion is performed in 24 Days and 
8 Hours of our Times and this will caufe her Year, 
which is equal to almoft 225 of our Days, to con- 
tain only 9J of her Days 5 and this odd Quarter of a 
Day in Venus will make every fourth Year a Leap 
Year to her, as happens to us on Earth, by the 6 
Hours that our Year contains above 3 65 Days: And 
to her the Sun will appear always to go thro' a Sign 
of the Zodiac in little more than 1 of her Day, which 
is equal to i8|. of our Days ; and in going round the 
Sun, her North Pole conftantly leans towards the 
20th Degree of Aquarius. 
Thus, with regard to the abfolute Length of Venus ' s 
Year, Bianchini agrees with CaJJini and other Aftro- 
nomers : but differs widely in other very remarkable 
Particulars, from which arife fomany Advantages, as 
to make that Planet incomparably more fit for its In- 
habitants, than we could poffibly conceive it to be 
by a quick Rotation on an Axis perpendicular to its 
annual Path, for Venus is fo much nearer the Sun 
than our Earth is, that it is well known ihe muft 
have twice as much Light and Heat as our Earth has; 
and 
