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space is connected with a fourth, whichcontains the kaiendar of months and days;each day, on the new eighteen-inch globes,being divided into four parts, expressing thefour cardinal points of the day, according tothe Julian reckoning; by which means thefun’s place is very nearly obtained for thethree common years after bissextile, and theintercalary day inserted without confusion.Whence we derive the following

PROBLEM I.

To find the fun’s place any day in theyear on the broad paper-circle.

98. Consider whether the year in whichyou. seek the sun’s place is bissextile, orthe first, second, or third year after.

99. If it be the first year after bissextile,those divisions, to which the numbers forthe days of the month are affixed, are therespective days for each month of that yearat noon; opposite to which, in the circleof twelve signs, is the fun’s place.

100. If it be the second year aster bissex-tile, the first quarter of a day backwards,or towards the left hand, is the day of the

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