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dian every day sooner than the latter, till thesun arrives at the point kf 1 , and the star at thepoint r, and then they will both come to themeridian at the same time. And, in like man-ner, as the fun moves through the fourth qua-drant STUVW, from Y? towards ar, and thestar through the quadrant st u v w, from r to-wards 'V, the former will come later every dayto the meridian than the latter, till they botharrive at the point v, and then they will makeit noon at the same time with the clock.

This part „ of the equation of time, may bemade still more familiar by means of a globe ;for if a small black patch be put on every tenthor fifteenth degree, both of the equator andecliptic, beginning at the point t, and the globebe turned round stowly to the westward, youwill observe that all the patches from Aries toCancer, and from Libra to Capricorn, will cometo the meridian sooner than their correspondingpatches on the equator; and all those fromCancer to Libra, and from Capricorn to Aries,will come to the meridian later than their cor-responding patches on the equator: whilst thepatches at the beginning of Aries, Cancer, Libraand Capricorn, being on, or even with those onthe equator, flaow that the sun and star, willeither meet there, or are even with each other,and, for that reason, must come to the meridianat the same time.

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