the fun in the centre

Re-posted from The Skillz Factory (my apologies if you've seen this already; I admit I'm being lazy here):

My interests in 18th-century science and education have recently led me to print out a text by "Tom Telescope" written for kids in 1761. It's a scan of the original, so many of the "s"s look like "f"s. I'm getting better at reading it, but if you read it the wrong way, you can get amusements like this:

Of the Solar System

"Our Solar System contains the fun in the centre, and the planets and comets moving about it.---Pray look at the figure on the other fide, where I have drawn the fun, and the planets in their feveral orbits or circles, with their refpective diftances from the fun, and from each other; together with the orbit of a comet.

"The planets, as I have already obferved, are bodies that appear like ftars, but are not luminous; that is, they have no light in themfelves, tho' they give us light; for they fhine by reflecting the light of the fun."


Update:
Of course, Pluto is no longer a planet orbiting the fun.