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yM. 49*, The SJjadaw tty-ough the middle ojf M. Sin*;, throjjgh. the - • • •

middle,of rktz f^stermpft «V'chk Wfc«? cajlc 4 . Afor? srÄ 'juft

touched the Ridge of the Appennine Mountuins.

7 h . 5‘4 / . It pasted the middle ofthe I. Besbicus in the Propontis.

8 h . o ; i It paffed throygh the Streigbts of the Pontus Euxinus , at the Pro-naon tories Acherusis and Apstes. . -

8h. 6T- It touched the Pc/i« Maotis, which Palus M.cotis was then distant " ‘ .

from the Limbos theNstoon, next adjacent, onc third part of its {horter Di- ...ameter orBreadth.

8* 1 . i y'. The Shadow went off the Body of the Moon upon the innermostLimb-linc of Hevclius' s large Chartos the Moon at the 29 Division, just wlth-out the I. Major of the Cafpian Sea. The Duskish Pcnumbra lest not theLimb of the Moon quite wichout forne Isind of Darlcneß till 8h. 29^; at v' ?r ' r . 1 'which time I found that that side of the Moon which the shadow last lest, wasfüll as light and ciear as the other.

About four or fiye Minute; alter the Shadow was gonc off, 1 pereeived afaint Reprefeptation of Colours upon th^t part of (he Body of the Moon,which was most afjected wuh ehe Penumbra, iömewhat resembling the Coloursof a faint Halo about the Moon ; this grew faiqter 411 d faint er, and aster a fewMinute; \yas no more Visible. ' It did not leqpi to bq CAusxd by qny Cloudsor Exhalations in the Air, the Sky ncar the Moon being very clear, and thesind Colours not appearing any where, but upon the dusky pqrt of its Phases.

Pollibly it might be caufed b'y the Refraction of the Light ström the Sun through

tsie /stttnosphere about the Earth. ’ r.

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4. Observatus est Finis, alto Ar 8uro ad occasum

Ablata Refractione, alto

Hinc datur Finis Observatus

Tinis Pcnumbra alto ArBuro

Correct.

Unde datur

Observata est M.cotis tota extra Umbram

Alto Ariluro

Correct.

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s. Hora 8. 30'. Per Nubes pehiseentes, stati? tamen craflas, Lunam sub-^, Dantzick;obscure animadvertimus, & qujdem tanto LujnJqe jam imbutum, 1 ut dixistesjo m. Hevelms.Eclipsin jam effe praeteritam. Exinde certum erat, Totalem Obfcuratiohem n * 781 f 1 3 ° 23 *jam minimum effe eo tempore praeteritam, imo aliquanto adhuc citius: Siqui-dem Lunam Rurlus adeste nos omnes per Nubes illas fatis dilucide deprehendi-mus; Sic ut Eclipsis in'Coelo ultra dimidiam horam citius ingruerit, quamKsplcri Calculus id indicaverit. 8* 1 . 34'. Minimum ad integrum Digitumanimadverti jam extra Umbram sele Lunam extricasse; & denuo 9 h . 41'. ad xi-Dig. Lumen Luna jam excrevisse, quantum id dijudicare circiter dabatur.

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