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marry objections ^ as may be taken to that part . The authors , in endea ~ yoprlpg to impress on the pupil ' s jjnaginaiion a correct view of the swrfajce of the h « av # H $ , resort to the ordinary methods of division and
association . They divide the celestial sphere into ten parts : ifght of these parts they associate mentally with the eight walls of ' two rooms , one over the other / and the remaining two parts , being those circumjacent to the poles , tftgy associate with the ceiling of the upper and the floor of the lower room .
Now the problem which particularly demanded our author's attention is * to adapt a spherical to a plane surface / or , in other words , * to make their ideal figures on their walls as true pictures as possible of the constellations in the heavens / And we add , in the plainest possible language , that « our author ' s projection ( which determines right ascension and declination by equidistant parallel right lines whose value increases in arithmetical ratio ) is anything but a solution of the 9
necessary problem . Whether or not our authors have the merit ef being thejirst to suggest the association , of divisions of the spheres , with the walls , ceiling-, and floor of an apartment , we cannot say , but we must say , that if one apartment only be used we very much approve of the plan t provided , in the second place , that the walls , ceiling , and floor be
property divided ; we would therefore recommend our authors to apply their talents to the use which might be made of the six maps published by the Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge , since these maps happen to be projected on the very principle on which our authors should have projected their diagrams ; numbers one , two , three , and four forming the walls , and numbers -five and six forming the ceiling and floor .
Any one acquainted with astronomy must know , that for all practical purposes it is impossible to dispense with the most accurate data , and whilst we admit thai much less than what our authors have written would afford abundant scope for performing ail their * amusing problems / we must strenuously deny its applicability to the practical purposes to which that science is applied : at the same time we think , that by throwing away the unnecessary part , and adapting their principles to the maps we have mentioned , our authors could produce a small , bat truly useful , astronomical school-book .
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Wb particularly wish to direct tha attention of pur readers to a series of letters in this Unitarian Chronicle on the state of religion in France . A misprint last month , in the article " On the Rise and Progress of the Doctrine of the Trinity , " line 15 from its commencement , p . 259 , involves a chronological error . For dement read Christ *
Having received the following resolutions in an official communication from the Rev . T . Rees , XX . D ., the secretary of the body , we comply with the request contained in the second , and lay them before our readers : — " At the annual meeting of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the three denominations , residing in anda bout the cities of London and Westminster , held at Dr . Williams ' s library , Redcross Street , April 10 , 1832 , Rev . Dr . Winter in the chair , — On a question of Privilege *—The following passage from the Monthly Repository for January last , p . 54 , — " It was by the Unitarians that the petitions to Parliament in favour of Catholic emancipation , from the general body ox dissenting ministers .
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Critical Notices , —lfe » fjyOem &f Geography , 8 fc . & § 0
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/71/
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