The
DESCRIPTION and USE
OF A NEW
CELESTIAL PLANISPHERE,
ADAPTED TO THE
Latitude & Parallel of London :
INSPECTED, AND APPROVED, BY THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL
AND BEING
PROJECTED upon the PLANE of the EQUINOCTIAL,
Proves every Way convenient for illustrating that moſt apparent and USEFUL PART of ASTRONOMY,
The DIURNAL MOTIONS of the SPHERES.
WITH A
CONCISE APHORISM OF THE ANNUAL MOTION OF THE EARTH AROUND THE SUN;
THE NATURE OF
The PRECESSION of the EQUINOXES;
AND THE
CONSEQUENT DIRECT MOTION OF THE STARS.
With all other PRECEPTS and EXAMPLES which are requisite in ſuch a WORK.
CALCULATED AS WELL FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE STUDENTS, AS TO ACCOMPANY, AND SUCCEED THE USE OF THE GLOBES IN THE FINISHING SCHOOLS,
By SOLVING all the moſt uſeful PROBLEMS in ASTRONOMY,
With the utmoſt Facility and Ease.
By STEPHEN GODWIN,
Teacher of the Mathematics, in London.
SOUTHWARK; Printed by W. KEMMISH, King-Street, BOROUGH
And Sold by the AUTHOR, at No. 20, Bride Lane; alſo by Smith, 172 Strand; Leathwait, at the Royal Exchange; Saffel, Compton Street, Soho; Syeds, Compaſs & Quadrant Maker, &c. 17, Rotherhithe Wall; Snart, Optician, 215, Tooley Street; and Meſſrs. Muggeridge, 92, Borough.—1802.
