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\^ ui u°ctial are call’d the Equinoctialis ° r ^tJiiSfoxEs, because when thelri them, the Days and Nights arethe Sun is in one of them in theltl the * lt * s called the Vernal Equinox ; andil< % a ^ Cr at Autumn , it is called the Au-‘X^pinox.

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^y-thcr the Winter Solftice.

!j i>u S , Meridians which pass through the^4/ * ° Ve ~uaention’d are call’d the Equi -' S°lftitml Colures respectively.

> tile the Sphere into four Quarters,diddle of the four Seasons of the

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