{' ro ) 1 0r der to understand the following

The Use of the Globes.

rf obl,

ei sis, st will be necessary to premise

the

N,

^ Posited, would view through each of those

Ve ry Stars in the Heavens represented by

tli re M CaU ^ " wou ^ t> e impossible to have any distinctIdeas or Notions of the Stars in respect of

r 1 first rr *° er > Magnitude, Order, Distances, idle. with-V ,‘t reH.,«:_ i .. .. __ j_.

K Cueing them to proper Classes, and arranging

,J k s 1Certai n Forms, which therefore are call’d Aste-

'' A° r Constellations : this was■no

st‘y A° r Constellations ; this was done in the^ e 3 Ve n ® es °f the World by the first Observers of thet jJ H 0n ’ those who made Spheres or Delineations ;R 6 first j~ lr Isaac Newton reckons Chiron the Centaur4 5 'fitr^” 0 formed the Stars into Constellations, aboutt)i a( . e °I the Argonautic Expedition or soon after jv s 6 ^ evera I Forms or Ajlerijmswtre, as it were,jjhp, Jrnbolical Histories, or Memorials of Persons

. ln gs remarkable in that Affair. Thus Aries , theHsri ls r- - -- —

n of the ShipTaurus , the Bull,

ih e th ^ Orru nemorated for his Golden Fleece, and was

w.Hum ° f theSi S ns ’ bein § the B lsig

fled to Colchis. TaunJ' Hoofs, tamed by Jason ; Gemini , the Twins,

f> is and Pollux, two of the Argonauts ; the ShipL T r £ [ p-Iydrus the Dragon, &c. which all mani-to the Affairs of that Expedition, whichct>out forty or fifty Years after Solomon ’s

i .

te c ' S ,r eans they could make Catalogues of theu fiy otd their Places in the Heavens, and call themst'rs‘ r Names. Hipparchus is said to be the firstI, Co • a Catalogue of the Stars, which was after-t\s by Ptolemy, and adjusted to his own

I f bi!

'> 0 ,

K

made a Catalogue of 1022, re-

140. The Number in this was 1026.

S C °° St 6 * Car I 437- 'Hycho Erahc rectified the Placesats 5 hut his Catalogue, published by Longo-c °ntain s but 777, for the Year 1600. Bayera Catalogue of

1160.

Hevelius composed aCatalogue