AURIGA to Erechthonius, OPHIUCHUS to Phorbas, SAGITTARIUS to Crolus the son of the Nurse of the Muses, CAPRICORN to Pan, and AQUARIUS to Ganimede.  There’s Ariadne’s CROWN, Bellerophon’s HORSE, Neptune’s DOLPHIN, Ganimede’s EAGLE, Jupiter’s GOAT with her KIDS, Bacchus’s ASSES, and the FISHES of Venus and Cupid, and their Parent the SOUTH FISH.  These with DELTOTON, are the old Constellations mentioned by Aratus:  and they all relate to the Argonauts and their Contemporaries, and to Persons one or two Generations older:  and nothing later than that Expedition was delineated there Originally. ANTINOUS and COMA BERENICES are novel.  The Sphere seems therefore to have been formed by Chiron and Musaeus, for the use of the Argonauts:  for the Ship Argo was the first long ship built by the Greeks.  Hitherto they had used round vessels of burden, and kept within sight of the shore; and now, upon an Embassy to several Princes upon the coasts of the Euxine and Mediterranean Seas, [74] by the dictates of the Oracle, and consent of the Princes of Greece, the Flower of Greece were to sail with Expedition through the deep, in a long Ship with Sails, and guide their Ship by the Stars.  The People of the Island Corcyra [75] attributed the invention of the Sphere to Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous, King of the Pheaces in that Island:  and it’s most probable that she had it from the Argonauts, who [76] in their return home sailed to that Island, and made some stay there with her father.  So then in the time of the Argonautic Expedition, the Cardinal points of the Equinoxes and Solstices were in the middles of the Constellations of Aries, Cancer, Chelae, and Capricorn.

In the end of the year of our Lord 1689 the Star called Prima Arietis was in [Aries]. 28 deg.. 51’. 00”, with North Latitude 7 deg.. 8’. 58”.  And the Star called ultima caudae Arietis was in [Taurus]. 19 deg.. 3’. 42”, with North Latitude 2 deg.. 34’. 5”.  And the Colurus AEquinoctiorum passing through the point in the middle between those two Stars did then cut the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6 deg.. 44’:  and by this reckoning the Equinox in the end of the year 1689 was gone back 36 deg.. 44’. since the Argonautic Expedition:  Supposing that the said Colure passed through the middle of the Constellation of Aries, according to the delineation of the Ancients.  The Equinox goes back fifty seconds in one year, and one degree in seventy and two years, and by consequence 36 deg.. 44’. in 2645 years, which counted back from the end of the year of our Lord 1689, or beginning of the year 1690, will place the Argonautic Expedition