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( i. T Shall here give the Reader an ^A. of the Year, as the grand an ^ginal Measure of Time, and derivedthe Astronomical Principles of the F j t sMotion; arid then afterwards cohsiSubdivisions and Distributions i flt °Parts, as Months, Days , Hours .

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Seconds, ‘Thirds, &c. for the Purp 0 ^ 1 ^common Life, and the Uses of ^logy, History, and other Sciences.

2. Time is in itself a flowing Qp al1 jjjmeasuring the Duration of Thing 8 ’its Flux is always equable arid uh 1 , 0 frind therefore to estimate theTime, we should measure it by sori^ ^that is in its own Nature always 0and the same Tenor; For this Purp 0have no Expedient so convenient aS 0 lof Motion ; and because the M ea ul " pi-Time ought to be permanent, we ea ^ j pno other Motion fit for this Pn s P° ethat of the Heavenly Bodies. , ‘ Q $

3; Among these, none of the w n $are so obvious to every Body, and p* ^common Sense, as that of theMoon ; which therefore have been a §upon by the Consent of all NationsEnd, and indeed this seems to have ^principal Part of the Design of theiration. For we are told they were a PP° pi