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Excerpt from The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea or Land, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place, and Variation of the Compass; With New Tables
The planets hitherto discovered are observed to be globular; but the Earth is also a planet, subject to the same laws, and revolving round the sun in the same manner as the other planets; therefore, by logy, the Earth is globular.
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