6 
latitude of .ny given plane wiflj 
*■» fad ”£St SgS eto » «» feed 
ments from the poles. . d at any given period, they 
i“i, .. £ f ’efeefe” 
a observed w eyen at tie present day, are 
S ufficiently W ™1 
s;,s-»”-s s~* * ie t °“ <iea on ” 
d “S, dating t» “S-'d 
years 1726 ^/f’STand Tycho Brahe, that a change 
ShTen'A A- aS"='« 
to any given *£“XrS'«S^ BtaSw 
star chiefly made use oi to determ Trans., 
marked 7 in the constellation of Draco. (See Dhil. irans 
1 748 1 Besides the direct and continuous chang ] P 
iSffiso detected a small —ng t£ 
he attributed to a 0 n«to^ g £Jd to the globe, as the maps 
impressio glo be Hence all changes were attributed 
- e “ SSf the Sis or to the earth bodily, and not to any 
to nutations of t je of tlie glote . These movements, 
movemen time of Pythagoras and Aristotle, 
^"ghj wTeSfoSotS, and therefore were totally 
neglected by modern astronomers, in speculating on t e pro- 
bable cause of the above changes. . • , i. , 
Bradley was appointed Astronomer Royal m 1742 ;but 
have been urg ^ south-east, and not the lands to- 
m °ll s^he north-west. But since it also affects the sun, moon, 
1 ^netTsuch an idea could not have been maintained; 
h.ve »»..»% ™t d c«S» ‘itf 
Kudlurt” »'d> 4 “'"W verilied Tl, it oiiuug. 
Jm.tion, The .rrnuid .mount of 
of the surface westward at an angle of about 23 30 from 
