——— _Of the Primary Planets_ 1 ——— _Of the Secondary Planets_ 5 ——— _Of the Annual and Diurnal Motion of the Planets_ 7 ——— _That the Planets are Opaque and Globular_ 9 ——— _That the Earth is placed betwixt the Orbits of_ Mars _and_ Venus ibid. ——— _That the Planets turn round the Sun_ ibid. ——— _That the Earth also turns round the Sun_ 15 ——— _How the Annual and Diurnal Motion of the Planets are computed_ ibid. ——— _How the relative Distance of the Planets from the Sun are determined_ 18 ——— _How their absolute Distances from the Sun are computed_ 23 ——— _How the Magnitudes of the Planets are determined_ 26 ——— _Why the Moon appears bigger than any of the Planets_ 27 ——— _A Table of the Distances, Magnitudes, Periodical, and Diurnal Revolutions of the Planets_ 28 ——— _Of Comets_ 29 SECT. II. _Of the Fixed Stars_ 32 ——— _That the fixed Stars are luminous Bodies, at immense Distances from us_ ibid. ——— _Of Telescopical Stars_ 35 ——— _The Stars digested into Constellations_ 36 ——— _Of the Galaxy, or Milky Way_ 38 [Illustration] _The_ DESCRIPTION _and_ USE _of the_ CELESTIAL _and_ TERRESTRIAL GLOBES. _The Geometrical Definition of a Globe, and of the principal Use of the Artificial Globes_ 42 _That there will be the same prospect of the Fixed Stars, whether the Spectator be placed in the Sun, or on the Earth_ 45 SECT. I. _An Explanation of the Circles of the Sphere, and of some Astronomical Terms arising therefrom_ 47 ——— _Of the Division of Time_ 69 ——— _Of the Atmosphere_ 81 SECT. II. _Geographical Definitions_ 84 ——— _Of the Situation of Places upon the Earth_ ibid. ——— _Of Zones and Climates_ 90 ——— _Of the Poetical Rising and Setting of the Stars_ 96 ——— _Of the surface of the Earth, considered as it is composed of Land and Water_ ibid. ——— _Of the appurtenances of the Globes_ 101