Cosmography

The names and symbols of the Signs of the Zodiac are these.

A list of the twelve signs of the zodiac arranged in four columns, grouped under a bracket. Each entry includes the name of the sign followed by its astrological symbol.

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Symbols of the seven Planets.

A list of the seven classical planets grouped under a bracket. Each entry includes the astrological symbol followed by the name of the planet in capital letters.

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The Colures are two circles in the Sphere: one indeed passes through the beginnings of Aries and Libra, the other truly through the beginnings of Cancer and Capricorn, and they intersect one another at spherical right angles about the poles of the world.

On the four minor Circles.

The Circle of Cancer, which is also called the Solstitial, is that which is distant from the equinoctial toward the North by 23 degrees and 30 minutes. When the Sun has withdrawn into this, it performs the summer turning, and the longest day of the year and the shortest night result. By the Greeks it is called the Tropic, as if turning.

The Circle of Capricorn, which is also called the Brumal, is that which is last described by the sun toward the South: in which the Sun makes its winter turning, and effects the shortest day and the longer night.

The Arctic Circle is that which is distant in every part from the pole of the world by 23 degrees and 30 minutes, and is described by the foremost foot of the Lesser Bear.

But the Antarctic Circle is that which is described by the Antarctic pole of the zodiac, and is equal to and equidistant from the Arctic circle, being entirely submerged beneath the earth for us.

Behold the material figure of the Circles of the Sphere.