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By these steps of science, the mind ofman may be raised to the contemplationof the divine wisdom, which has so ad-justed the proportion of days, months, sea-sons, and years, in the different parts of theterraqueous globe, as to have distributedwith an impartial hand, though after amanner wonderfully various, an equal shareof the fun’s light to every nation underheaven.

By these globes, with little or no expe-rience in astronomy, may be seen how themoon changes her place every night, byobserving her position with respect to anyfixed star, and how she proceeds regularlyfrom it to the eastward; as the severalplanets also may be observed to do, somemore slowly than others, as their orbits aremore or less remote from the center of thesystem; while the regularity of their motions,strictly conformable at all times to the lawsof their Creator, exhibits a striking patternof obedience to every rational spectator.

But it will be proper in this place to in-form the reader what he is to expect inthe globes, and in the following treatiseintended to accompany and explain them.

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