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21 distance on each side of this path are divided into twelve '-constellations; and among these the Sun appears to ove, changing his place from west to east nearly one agree daily ; that is, supposing we could see the stars y day, the star which the Sun covers one day would be early a degree to the westward of him the next; so oat those stars which are at present on the meridian at ®pon, six months hence will be on the meridian at mid- O'ght. Hence arises the difference between the solar od the sidereal day. The sidereal day is the time .h elapses between two passages of a star across the endian, and is in fact a complete revolution of the ^ abes place in 23 hours, 56 minutes, hilst the Earth has made one revolution, the Sun has Ranged his place in the ecliptic nearly a degree ; and fo ° u’ 1 fllerefol ' e must turn a degree more on its axis r the Sun to arrive a second time at a meridian of any g. a< ? e - occupies 4 min. longer ; and the period of (] lours is called a solar day. After the lapse of 365 ays, or one year, the Sun returns to the same place p r( ° n g the stars, as that in which he was a year DIAGRAM XYI. Iat^ epreSen . tS the % ures R iven to the different Constel- p, ons , which are called the signs of the Zodiac, r, Cir pames are Aries (the Ram). Taurus (the Bull) emini (the Twins), Cancer (the Crab), Leo (the Lion)’ Sco g ° Vlr S in )’ Libra ( tlle Scales), Scorpio (the 0 03 r P lon ); Sagittarius (the Archer), Capricornus (the ■f'isb \ ^ fJUalius ( tbe Water-bearer), Pisces (the es) : the Earth is shewn in its path, with its moon. Part V't 0 "' C .° me t0 what is to us the most important its * n- 6 Sciencc ’ tbe astronomy of our own planet and ar e ateI ite ‘—■ Pbat tbe Earth is a globular body, there '•Tep-n 311 - 7 - Ways of P rovin g- Though the different they lantles in tbe Earth’s surface appear great to us, glob 316 Vei T s . ma H when compared with the size of the e >" not being greater in proportion to the Earth’s