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For One Night Only, unless Requested.
G. GREENE, M. D. M. A. R.
And formerly Pupil of Messieurs Walker, Martin and Ferguson, very respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that
HE WILL DELIVER
This Evening, February
THE ANALYSIS OF A LECTURE UPON THE
Eidouranion:
OR, TRANSPARENT ORRERY.
EXPLAINING
The Courses, Distances, Situations, Magnitudes and Motions, of the Heavenly Bodies.
THE diffusion of useful knowledge, will appear obvious to the most superficial observer; and when we reflect upon the means of supporting rational liberty, the education of youth must certainly be an object of primary consideration; Parents, Guardians and Tutors, it is hoped, will indulge the objects of their care. Gentlemen who have completed their education, it is presumed, will not find it unworthy their attention and as ocular observations impress much on the mind and assist more in demonstrating facts than literal or verbal descriptions, it is essential to conception to give a delineated representation where it can be effected, thereby making description more impressive. Here the man of science may speculate, the serious admire the wonderful works of Nature, and the gay be allured to intellectual pleasures.
The Masons, in particular, it is hoped, will avail themselves of the opportunity in honouring the seventh Science of their order. The Ladies, whose minds are more free from the cares of the world, most susceptible of tenderness, and ever ready to acknowledge the attributes of the Great Creator, who has framed, and animates so stupendous a universe, are also invited to visit this polite branch of literature.
The following illustrations will take place during the course of the Lecture.
1. Three views of the Celestial Globe, or map of the fixed Stars.
2. The Telescopic appearance of the Planets—Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
3. The planet Jupiter, with his four moons revolving round him, and alternately undergoing an Eclipse.
4. The planet Saturn with his seven Satellites in motion.
5. The Moon making her monthly circuit round the Earth; exhibiting the Phases of New, Full, &c.
6. The Telescopic appearance of the Moon: 1 ft, soon after change: 2d, in her approach to the full: 3d, when full at her mean libration.
7. Three views of the Earth as she would appear to an observer upon the Moon.
8. The shadow of the Moon, with the Penumbra passing over the Earth, as it would appear to an observer upon the Moon, during an eclipse of the Sun.
9. A partial and then an annular eclipse of the Sun, likewise the Transit of Venus, and the solar Macul
10. The Ptolemaic, Copernican and Tychonic Systems.
11. The Solar System according to the theory of Copernicus in which the planets with their satellites move round the Sun which is placed in the centre.
12. The position of the Earth's Axis with respect to the Sun: 1 ft, at the Summer Solstice: 2d, at the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes: 3d, at the Winter Solstice.
[???] TICKETS, One Dollar each. To be had at the Bar.
[???] No money to be taken at the door. Doors to be opened at half after Six, and commence precisely at seven o'clock. No more Tickets will be sold than the seats will accommodate.
Those Citizens who intend to honour the EIDOURANION with their Company, it is hoped, will consult their own interest by attending before the Lecture commences.