Excerpt from The Analytical Review, or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, Vol. 3: On an Enlarged Plan; From January, to April Inclusive, 1789 The fecond polition evidently cdn?ounds the meafure of fiance with that of time. The earth's annual orbit is divided, as all great circles are, into 360 degrees, not of time, but of (pace. The rotatory motion only determines the time in which the earth performs its annual circuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.