Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
He maketh out
the _Figures of things_,
with _Lines_, 7.
_Angles_, 8.
and _Circles_, 9.
Designat
_Figuras rerum_
_Lineis_, 7,
_Angulis_, 8.
& _Circulis_, 9.
by a _Rule_, 10.
a _Square_, 11.
and a _pair of Compasses_, 12.
ad _Regulam_, 10.
_Normam_, 11.
& _Circinum_, 12.
Out of these arise
an _Oval_, 13.
a _Triangle_, 14.
a _Quadrangle_, 15.
and other figures.
Ex his oriuntur
_Cylindrus_, 13.
_Trigonus_ 14.
_Tetragonus_, 15.
& aliæ figuræ.
CIV.
The Celestial Sphere.
Sphera cælestis.
[Illustration]
_Astronomy_ considereth
the _motion of the Stars_,
_Astrology_
the Effects of them.
_Astronomia_ considerat
_motus Astrorum_,
_Astrologia_
eorum Effectus.
The _Globe of Heaven_
is turned about upon
an _Axle-tree_, 1.
about the _Globe_
_of the Earth_, 2.
in the space of XXIV. hours.
_Globus Cæli_
volvitur super
_Axem_, 1.
circa _globum_
_terræ_, 2.
spacio XXIV. horarum.
The _Pole-stars_, or _Pole_,
the _Arctick_, 3.
the _Antarctick_, 4.
conclude the _Axle-tree_
at both ends.
_Stellæ polares_,
_Arcticus_, 3.
_Antarcticus_, 4.
finiunt _Axem_
utrinque.
The _Heaven_ is
full of Stars every where.
_Cælum_ est
Stellatum undique.
There are reckoned
above a _thousand fixed Stars_;
but of _Constellations_
_towards the North_, XXI.
_towards the South_, XVI.
_Stellarum fixarum_
numerantur plus _mille_;
_Siderum_ verò
_Septentrionarium_, XXI.
_Meridionalium_, XVI.
Add to these the XII.
_signs_ of the _Zodiaque_, 5.
every one XXX. degrees,
whose names are
Adde _Signa_, XII.
_Zodiaci_, 5.
quodlibet graduum, XXX,
quorum nomina sunt
♈ _Aries_ ♉ _Taurus_,
♊ _Gemini_, ♋ _Cancer_,
♌ _Leo_, ♍ _Virgo_,
♎ _Libra_, ♏ _Scorpius_,
♐ _Sagittarius_, ♑ _Capricorn_,
♒ _Aquarius_, ♓ _Pisces_.
♈ _Aries_ ♉ _Taurus_,
♊ _Gemini_, ♋ _Cancer_,
♌ _Leo_, ♍ _Virgo_,
♎ _Libra_, ♏ _Scorpius_,
♐ _Sagittarius_, ♑ _Capricorn_,
♒ _Aquarius_, ♓ _Pisces_.
Under this move
the seven _Wandring-stars_
which they call _Planets_,
Sub hoc cursitant
_Stellæ errantes_ VII.
quas vocant _Planetas_,
whose way is a circle
in the middle of the Zodiack,
called the _Ecliptick_, 6.
quorum via est Circulvs,
in medio Zodiaci,
dictus _Ecliptica_, 6.
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