Very well, said the Lady, let us then take his Time of the Year; suppose May 10, 1719; How must we begin?
Madam, said I, for common Use, look first for the Sun's Place.Sun's Place, against the Day of the Month, in the Calendar, on the wooden Horizon (tho' if you would proceed to greater Exactness, you must find the Sun's Place in some good Tables, such as those which Dr. Harris hath given in the second Volume of his Lexicon, or such as Parker's Almanack which I have here in my Pocket, gives you every Year, or else you must determine it by Calculation, &c.) and then finding that Place, or what Degree of any Sign of the Zodiac the Sun appears to be in that Day at Noon, which you will find to be then in in the first Degree of Gemini, look it out on the Ecliptic on the Globe, and there make, either with a Pencil of with ink, a Mark to represent the Sun for that Day.
But, said she, won't that spoil the Globe?
No, Madam, said I, that being varnish'd, the Ink will easily come out again, if you rub it with your Handkerchief alittle
