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of Aries were fix’d, each Annualof the Sun would be constantly thetherefore a just and equal Measure o ^Year, which is call’d the Periodicd ^as being the Time of the Earth’s y^‘about the Sun ; and which consists 0 fi

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CXLI.) the several Points of thehave a retrograde Motion, ’tis easyderstand, that by this Receffion of th e ^nox it will, as it were, meet thecause that the Sun shall arrive to thenox, or first Point of Aries, beforevolution is compleated. And ^ p'this Space of time (which is call’^fical Tear) is not so long as the

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noxes, and dividing the Time elaf^ fittween by the Nutnber of R-evolutm 1 ^ yr/Quotient will shew the Quantity of ^ 5

peal Year to be 365 D. 5 H. 48' Si ^is 20' 17" less than the Periodical Yq-jss

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