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the third Place, the greatest Elon-l ° n c * Iaiftance of Mercury from the Sun

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ISwJi 6 ' V T S “ 40 Degrees nearly; which shewsfl 5 hr c „ eJa Venus is 40 Degrees distant from the Sun,hen ft; a ^er her Inferior Conjunction with him, she, Jj, | nes with the greatest Lustre possible.

5f Lift 1 tbls Position we fee not much more than | ofthuft re en Hghtened, and yet she shines with so greathir$ tb f S to stitpafs the united Light of all the Fixedr !l th e if a .PP eai ' with her, and casts a very strong ShadeOr, ' z ontal Plane, and may be seen in the fulllr y, a J! of the Day ; a Phænomenon very extraordi-. 16 . 4, Which returns but once in eight Years.jPp^ar to e different Directions in which the Planets/f a t Qs ^ove in the Heavens is an irrefragable Argu-

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Truth of the Solar System ; for in the Pto-

^ v or r ' e 'V' 1J1 they would be seen to move with theirp q ^ Motion, and in their Direction accordingJ^ f t of j. r of the Signs from West to East, in everytj at,| ier. Clr Orbits, and that always in an equable• f r 5 Whereas now we observe them move fome-i *VeJl to Eaji , when they are said to be direct

se^icL*’ sometimes from East to JVest, when they

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t\j^ retr ograde^ or to go backwards; and Iome-ga thZ a PP e ar not to move all for a certain Time,

are f^id to be stationary : And lastly, the

? Pallet when direct is always much slowertjt, 7, Nolf “ r etrograde.

f' 6 b ’/ b 3 * t,nebe Pl iænomena are not only expli-Necessarily follow from, the Copernicautil 11 at h US tefpect to the Planet Mercury ,lY^n - he appear at his greatest Distance frontVis v> bu!i n0ri S the Stars at O, being seen in the Lineirj ^1Lii le 'r' S tbe Planet passes from R by N to O, theHich Qwsll continually approach the Line TW,

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ave apparently described the Arch Q_W in

1 , c % e ‘-Sun appears at W ; and when the Planettk t'vill h ^ w ‘ ^ be I' 1 Conjunction with the Sun

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After this, while the Planet moves from

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