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Sun
this is one Million Times greater than
the Earth. his Diameter 822148 M
[distance?] from the Earth 81 Million Miles

of the Moon
Diameter 2175 M. Distance 60
Semi Diameter of the Earth one being almost 4000 M
she goes round the Earth in 27D 7H 43M and is
1/50 part as big as the Earth the Quantity of Matter
in the Earth to that of the Moon as 1 to 40
she goes 13° - 10 [Minutes?] in one Day = 24 Hours

of Degrees of Heat
it is 7 times as hot at Mercury
as at the Earth. 2 as hot at
Venus boiling Water is 3 times as hot as the heat
of the Sun in the Summer a red hot Iron is
three 1/2 hotter than boiling Water

of Air
[ye?] want of the Atmosphere upon one
[Squair?] Inch is 15 [Cb?] a Common Man carrys
6000 and upward it reaches about 40 Miles
is equal to a Collum of Water of 32 or 33 foot
Wait of Quick Silver 29 or 30 or 31 Inches
Air is heavior in fair Weathe than foul
Water will boil sooner in foul than fair

[Taisling?]
this is caused be the diferent shaps
of the Particles of matter

of the Tides
these are caused by the Attraction
of the Moon, the Attraction of the
Sun to that of the Moon on our Earth is as Ito &
[or?] 10 to 51 the Attraction of the Sun will raise the
Water 1 foot 11 Inches and the Moon [9 feet?] 7 Inches
both together as in the Chang 11 1/2 feet what
greater as the Moons Distance from the Earth is
[?] which happen before the Vernal Equinox

Longitude
when a Vessel is sailing North or South they [?]
how far she has sailed by finding where the [Suns?] Place in
[?] is and then Measureing the Angle He make with
Horizon after having sailled Measure it again if IViZ.49&.2.48
[?]

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