The Five Books Of M. Manilius Ancient Astronomy

Marcus Manilius

Translated by Thomas Creech

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The opening

The Firft Book.

After a fhort Account of his Defign, and a complement al Add refs to AuguBus, he begins, i. With the Rife and Progrefs of Aflronomy, ml other Arts: i. Difcourfeth of the federal Opinions concerning the Beginning of the World: 3. Defer lies the Order of it: /j. Proves the Earth to be the Centre of the World: 5. Proves it to be round: 6. Affects the Soul of the World: 7. Reckons up the Signs of the Aodiack: 8. Deferibes the Axis: y. The Northern Conjlellations: 10. The Conjlellations between the Tropicks and the South-pole: 11. Explains the Figures of the Conjlellations: 1 2. Ajf ‘erts Providence againfl Epicurus: 13. Difcovers the Bignefs of the World: 14. Treats of the movable and immovable Circles .* 15*. Makes a long defeription of the Milky-way: 16. Reckons up the Planets: 17. Difcourfeth of Omits and Meteors> and concludes that they prefage.

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