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circle that is the Terminator of the light; therefore this same circle shall passe by the Poles AB in the fourth figure, and in its plain the Axis AB shall fall, but the greatest circle passing by the Poles of the Parallels, divideth them all in equal parts; therefore the arches IK, EF, CD, GN, LM, shall be all semicircles, and the illumin'd Hemisphere shall be this which looketh towards us, and the Sun, and the Terminator of the light shall be one and the same circle ACBD, and the Earth being in this place shall make it Equinoctial to all its Inhabitants. And the same happeneth in the second figure, where the Earth having its illuminated Hemisphere towards the Sun, sheweth us the other that is obscure, with its nocturnal arches, which in like manner are all semicircles, and consequently, here also it maketh the Equinoctial. And lastly in regard that the line produced from the centre of the Sun to the centre of the Earth, is perpendicular to the Axis AB, to which the greatest circle of the parallels CD, is likewise erect, the said line O Libra shall passe of necessity by the same Plain of the parallel CD, cutting its circumference in the midst of the diurnal arch CD; and therefore the Sun shall be vertical to any one that shall stand where that intersection is made; but all the Inhabitants of that Parallel shall passe the same, as being carried about by the Earths diurnal conversion; therefore all thes upon that day shall have the Meridian Sun in their vertex. And the Sun at the same time to all the Inhabitants of the Earth shall seem to describe the Grand Parallel called the Equinoctial. Furthermore, forasmuch as the Earth being in both the Solstitial points of the Polar circles IK and LM, the one is wholly in the light, and the other wholly in the dark; but when the Earth is in the Equinoctial points, the halves of those same polar circles are in the light, the remainder of them being in the dark; it should not be hard to understand, how that the Earth v. gr. from Cancer (where the parallel IK is wholly in the dark) to Leo, one part of the parallel towards the point I, beginneth to enter into the light, and that the Terminator of the light IM beginneth to retreat towards the Pole AB, intersecting the circle ACBD no longer in IM, but in two other points falling between the terms IA and MB, of the arches IA and MB; whereupon the Inhabitants of the circle begin to enjoy the light, and the other Inhabitants of the circle LM to partake of night. And thus you see that by two simple motions made in times proportionate to their bignesses, and not contrary to one another, but performed, as all others that belong to moveable mundane bodies, from West to East assigned to the Terrestrial Globe, adequate reasons are rendred of all those Phænomena or appearances, for the accommodating ofwhich