A new treatise on the use of the globes, or a philosophical view of the earth and heavens / [Thomas Keith].

  • Thomas Keith
Date:
1808
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Credit: A new treatise on the use of the globes, or a philosophical view of the earth and heavens / [Thomas Keith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X \ PREFACE. A MONGST the various branches of fcience fludled in our academies, and places of public cduca tion, there are few of greater importance than that of the Ufe of the Globes. The earth* is our deftined habitation, and the heavenly bodies meafure our days and years by their various revolutions. With- out fomc acquaintance with the different tra£ls of land, the oceans, feas, Sre, on the furface of the ter- reftrial globe, no intercourfe could be carried on with the Inhabitants of diflant regions, and confequently their manners, cudoms. See, would be totally un- known to us. Though the different trails of land, &c. cannot be fo minutely deferibed on the furface of a terreftrial globe as on different maps ; yet the globe (hews the figure of the earth, and tlie relative fituatlons of the principal places on its furface, more corre£lly than a map. Had the ancients paid no attention to the motions of the heavenly bodies, hif- torlcal fafts would have been given without dates, ^ 2 and ,