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Appendix

4,9, But because these Numbers f° r ^observed New Moons are not of lasting(.as above shewn) the best way of disst 0 ^these Numbers is hy the Mean Lunation s \ 1 ^they 'may be found from Astroncn 11 ^Tables ^ for each Year of the Cycle ,are the same in every Cycle , and do not ' ^greatly from the true. But however *vantageous this may be in civil Life, ^ Anot to expect: this Innovation should ^Place in the Liturgy of the Church ^

England, which still continues to cowsthe Moons, as it does the Equinoxes)the -old erroneous Rule established by 1

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Council of Nice, which are called $ cC ‘qjtical New Moons , in Contradistinction t°true ones in the Heavens.

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co. Besides these, there was anothct• co*

nod called the Cycle of IndictioN* fa

fisting of 15 Years ; it was so called be ca ^

the Numbers of this Cycle indicated

Time of Easter'. But as this Cycle

Connection with the Motions of the ^

venly Bodies, I shall say no more of R h

but refer the Reader for a farther

of this and other Matters purely

logical, to the Authors who have wrot e

Chronology, or, if they please, to an Cp' li °