HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

ORIGIN AND PROGRESS

ASTRONOMY.

WITH PLATES ILLUSTRATING, CHIEFLY, THE ANCIENT SYSTEMS.

BY JOHN NARRIEN, F.R.A.S.

“Credo Deos immortales sparsisse animos in corpora humana, ut essent, qui terras tuerentur,
quique, cælestium ordinem contemplantes, imitarentur eum vitæ modo atque constantia."

CICERO, DE SENECTUTE, CAP. XXI.

LONDON:

BALDWIN AND CRADOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1833.

JITH PLATES ILLUSTRATING, CHIEFLY, THE ANCIENT SYSTEMS.

BY JOHN NARRIEN, F.R.A.S.