The second Method of solving this Phænomena, is by a spherical Order of the Stars, all moving with different Direction round one common Center, as the Planets and Comets together do round the Sun, but in a kind of Shell, or concave Orb. The former is easily conceived, from what has been already said, and the latter is as easy to be understood, if you have any Idea of the Segment of a Globe, which the adjacent Figures, will, I hope, assist you to. The Doctrine of these Motions will perhaps be made very obvious to you, by inspecting the following Plates. PLATE XXIV. Is a Representation of the Convexity, if I may call it so, of the intire Creation, as a universal Coalition of all the Stars consphered round one general Center, and as all governed by one and the same Law. PLATE XXV. Is a centeral Section of the same, with the Eye of Providence seated in the Center, as in the virtual Agent of Creation. PLATE XXVI. Represents a Creation of a double Construction, where a superior Order of Bodies C, may be imagined to be circumscribed by the former one A, as possessing a more eminent Seat, and nearer the supream Presence, and consequently of a more perfect Nature. Lastly, PLATE XXVII. Represents such a Section, and Segments of the same, as I hope will give you a perfect Idea of what I mean by such a Theory. _Fig._ 1. is a corresponding Section of the Part at A, in _Fig._ 2. whose versed Sine is equal to half the Thickness of the starry Vortice A C, or B A. Now I say, by supposing the Thickness of this Shell, 1. you may imagine the middle Semi-Chord A D, or A E, to be nearly 6; and consequently thus in a like regular Distribution of the Stars, there must of course be at least three Times as many to be seen in this Direction of the Sine, or Semi-chord A E, itself, than in that of the semi-versed Sine A C, or any where near the Direction of the Radius of the Space G. Q. E. D. [Illustration: Plate XXIII.] [Illustration: Plate XXIV.] [Illustration: Plate XXV.] [Illustration: Plate XXVI.] [Illustration: Plate XXVII.] [Illustration: Plate XXVIII.] [Illustration: Plate XXIX.] But we are not confined by this Theory to this Form only, there may be various Systems of Stars, as well as of Planets, and differing probably as much in their Order and Distribution as the Zones of _Jupiter_ do from the Rings of _Saturn_, it is not at all necessary, that every collective Body of Stars should move in the same Direction, or after the same Model of Motion, but may as reasonably be supposed as much to vary, as we find our Planets and Comets do.