Catalogue Entry: OTHE00132

Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady: Wherein the Doctrine of the Sphere, Uses of the Globes, and the Elements of Astronomy and Geography are Explain'd

Author: John Harris

Metadata: 1719, in English , c. 37,645 words

Source: Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady: Wherein the Doctrine of the Sphere, Uses of the Globes, and the Elements of Astronomy and Geography are Explain'd (London: 1719).

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^{[Image 1]} Vid Fig. I. Vid Fig. I.

^{[Image 2]} Vid Fig. I. Vid Fig. I.

^{[Image 3]} Fig. II. Fig. II.

^[1] (a) Here on the Terrestrial Globe I shewed her the chief Places of the Græcian and Roman Empires

^[2] (a) Here the Brass Meridian of the Globe was placed due North and South.

^[3] Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks, p. 318. last Edition.

^[4] Vid. Accompt. of S.S. Prophecies, p. 288.

^[5] Ricciol. Almagest Hevelij. Prodrom. Mercator Astron. in Append. Philosoph Trans. Miscellania Berlin. Whiston's Astron. Derham, &c.

^{[Image 4]} Fig. III.

^{[Image 5]} See Fig. IV. See Fig. IV.

^[6] Dryden's Lucretius.

^{[Image 6]} See Fig. IV. See Fig. IV.

^{[Image 7]} Vid. Fig. of Saturn. Vid. Fig. of Saturn.

^{[Image 8]} The Orbit of these three are described in Fig. IV.

^{[Image 9]} Fig. V. Fig. V.

^{[Image 10]} Fig. VI. Fig. VI.

^{[Image 11]} Fig. V. Fig. V.

^{[Image 12]} See Fig. of the Orrery. See Fig. of the Orrery.

^[7] (a) After I had turned it round several Times till it hapned so.

^[8] (a) After I had turned it round several Times till it hapned so.

^[9]

(a) Salmoneus King of Elis, by driving a Charlœ over Brass-bridge, dared to imitate Thunder, for which Jove slew him with a Thunderbolt; for thus Virgil, Æn. 6. speaks of him,

Vidi & Crudeles dantem Salmonea pænae

Dum Flammas Jovis, & sonitus imitatur Olympi.