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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B120212.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Frontispeice of the Chronological Automaton or Self-moving <HI>EPHEMERIS</HI> of y^e Celestial Motions, <HI>&amp;c</HI> Representing y^e phaenomena at Noon March 30: 1691 <HI>Jnvented and made by SAMUEL WATSON of Coventry Watch-Maker</HI></HEAD>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of a chronological automaton, a self-moving ephemeris of the celestial movements</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>dial on the automaton</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>dial on the automaton</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>dial on the automaton</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>dial on the automaton</FIGDESC>
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<FIGDESC>dial on the automaton</FIGDESC>
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<HEAD>A Brief Explication of the parts of the first table</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>a</LABEL>The center with a little Ball Repre&s;enting y^e globe of y^e Earth.</P>
<P><LABEL>bb &amp;c</LABEL> The orbs of the Respective planets haueing their Epicycles afixt in them</P>
<P><LABEL>cc &amp;c</LABEL> Shaded lines Repre&s;enting the Epicycles of y^e. Several planets</P>
<P><LABEL>dd &amp;c</LABEL> The centers of the Epicycles Shewing their Middle Motion &Merc; &Venus; &Sun; &Mars; &Jupit; &Saturn; Shew what planets the Asteri&s;ks to which they are affixt Repre&s;ent, and y^e A&s;teri&s;ks them|&s;elv's Shew the apparant place of their re&s;pective planets in the Zodiake by a line from the Center to the A&s;teri&s;k continued to the &s;igne and degree of the Zodiake, as &Saturn;. 28^D. of &Scorp;. &Jupit;. 20^D. of &Aries; &Mars; 28^D. of &Aquar;. the &Sun; neere 20^D of. &Aries;. &Venus;. 3^D of &Pisces;. &Merc;. 26^D. of &Pisces;. and the Moone. 6^D. of &Virgo; when they are direct Swift or Slow Stationary or Retrograde may be Known by ob&s;erueing in what part of the Epicycle the planet is or more Mechanically by Seeing the motions of the worke.</P>
<P>The Apogaeons perigaeons and aspects and the Elongations of &Venus; and &Merc; &amp;c. are &s;uffitiently evident to the intelligent Spectator by ob&s;erving in what part of their Epicycle they are in and how far di&s;tant from each other as &Saturn; aproaching neere his perigaeon &Jupit; in his Apo|gaeon and &Venus; drawing towards her Elongation &amp;c.</P>
<P><LABEL>ee</LABEL> The 12 Cele&s;tiall Sign's as computed from the first Star of Aries with the most Remarkable fixt Stars in and about the Zodiak haueing a proper Motion of about one degree in a 100 years &amp;c.</P>
<P><LABEL>fff &amp;c</LABEL> The Signes of the Zodiak with y^e Num|ber of their degrees rekoned from the Vernall Equinox</P>
<P><LABEL>gg &amp;c</LABEL> The 24 houres of y^e Natural Day Ser|ving for y^e ob&s;ervation of the horary di&s;tance betweene planets of different Longitude, or planets or other Stars &amp;c</P>
<P><LABEL>hh &amp;c</LABEL> The degrees of tere&s;tiall Longitude adapted to the Longitude of London Serving for the Knowledg of y^e South|ing &amp;c of any of the planets or other Star's to that or any place of Known Longitude &amp;c</P>
<P><LABEL>ii</LABEL> The Lamina on the Ea&s;tern and We&s;tern &s;ides of the table with the Characters of the 12 &s;igns of the Eccliptick Fitted for the Latitude of London Shewing the length and Shortne&s;s of the Day, And the exact Ri&s;eing and Setting of the Signes of the Zodiack with the Stars and planets in them, each Signe then Ri&s;eing when it comes ouer again&s;t its Corre&s;pondent Signe in the Ea&s;tern Lamina and &s;etting when it comes to the like on the other &s;ide, And the arch aboue or below the&s;e Shew (and with the Circle of houres) the Space of tyme which they make aboue or below the Horizon</P>
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<HEAD>The Explication of the: 2^d: Table</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>a</LABEL> The center Repre&s;enting the Earth</P>
<P><LABEL>kk &amp;c</LABEL> The orbe of the Moon</P>
<P><LABEL>ll &amp;c</LABEL> The center of her Epicycle Shew|ing her middle Motion</P>
<P><LABEL>mm &amp;c</LABEL> The Moon in her Epicycle Shew|ing her apparent place in y^e Zodiak her Apogaeon and perigaeon haue|ing the Hemi&s;phere next the Sun alwayes Illuminated Serving to Shew her Various pha&s;es &amp;c</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">nn &amp;c.</NOTE>Two Circles one Repre&s;enting the Eccliptick the other the Orbit of the moon with figures inclo&s;ed to &s;hew the degrees of her Latitude
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<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">N&northnode;</NOTE>The North Node</ITEM>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">S&southnode;</NOTE>The South Node</ITEM>
</LIST> haueing their proper Motion</P>
<P><LABEL>oo &amp;c</LABEL> The Sun placed here the better to &s;hew his A&s;pects with y^e Moon and Ecclip&s;es;</P>
<P>The Ecclip&s;es, their quantitie, Dura|tion and the parts of the earth which they are Vi&s;ible in &amp;c. are to be knowne by con&s;idering the Latitude of the Moon in her conjunction and oppo&s;ition with the Sun and the Longitude and Latitude of the Re&s;pective places; the Rules for which are here for brevity Sake omited;</P>
<P><LABEL>pp &amp;c</LABEL> Remarkable Stars in their pro|per Longitudes which are more Remote from the Eccliptick then tho&s;e in the former table;</P>
<P>The other parts of this table are Sufficiently Explaind in the Former</P>
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<HEAD>The 3 Table</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>qq &amp;c</LABEL> The innermo&s;t Circle by figures from 1. to 28. tells the Cycle of the Sun; The &s;econd &s;hews the Dominical Letter; the next &s;hews the months, and the 4 Circles Surrounding it, tells the day of the Month, to be acounted on the inermo&s;t the first yeare after Bi&s;sextile; and So Succe&s;ively to the outermo&s;t; which Serues for leape yeare</P>
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<HEAD>The 4^t^h Table</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>rr</LABEL> The innermo&s;t Circle &s;hews the Indiction; the middle the gol|den Number; the outermo&s;t the Epact:</P>
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<HEAD>The Middle Table</HEAD>
<P>S.M.T.W.T.F.S. are the fir&s;t Letters of the days of the weeke with their primary planet and in the Circle encompa&s;ing them is &s;hewed the houres of the Day computed from 12 to 12:</P>
<P><LABEL>SS</LABEL> A hole for a Key whereby the whole Machine as depending on one Axis) may be moued for any Number of Days months or yeares either backward or forward pre&s;enting to the eye the foremen|tioned phaenomenae happening in that &s;pace of tyme, and then being returned to the pre&s;ent yeare Month Day and houre Keeps the tyme for the future, So that upon occa&s;ion of any neglect in drawing up the weight which moues the long pendulum (which neede be done but once in Eight Days) the whole is &s;et right;</P>
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<P><HI>OXFORD Printed at the</HI> THEATER. And &s;old by Ra. Simpson Book&s;el. in S^t. Paul's Church-yard <HI>London.</HI> And at <HI>Coventry</HI> by the Book&s;el. And Author.</P>
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