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tum Parißenßbus 1668 »videbatur. Siquidem Annutus., qui Saturnum circundat,multo nunc arctior, comprciliorquc animadversus quam illo tempore, quasiobliquiori, respectu Terra, nunc via incedit.

y. This Summer M. Hugcns Oblerved Satum with his Telescope os xxFcet, and law bis Figurc to be very conformable to what it should be accord-ing to his Hypoth.fu ■, viz,. the Anjc or Armsto be very narrow, in fo muehthat their opening appeared not but very obsourely.

6. Sept. 1 6. Dr. Hoolg oblerved the Phase of Saturn as here represented.Fig. 13 5s.

7. Satum according to the I-lypotbcsis os M. Flugcns was to have retaken hisf{cund Figurc in the Months oijuly and Auguß 1671. But this Appearancc hathbeen perccived ever sin ce th.e End cf May , at a Time when he was distant e-nough from the Sun and the Iion\on, to be well Oblerved. He hath remainedin this Figurc unto the 11 t!l of August, and M. Caffini did then oblerve himthus 3 but three Days aherhe law him with /hms, though very Narrow ones.

8. Our Pitiirsopljci s here, know very well, that as (bon as M Cafstni had toldme that the Amis of Satum 'aere returned in Anguß, 1 said that assuredlythey would disippear before the End of this Year. I stili oblerved them,Ncv. 6. st. n. in the Evening, but they were Io faint and obscure, that Itwas hard to dilcern them3 Io that within a sew Days they will appear nomore at all. This conhrms altogethcr my Hypotheßs of the Ring, which nowdilappears in Proportion that the Rays of the Sun do obliqucly illuminate theHat Surfaceof it, Obvervcrted to ourSight.

9. Quali Facie nuper, Die fi.Scpt. n.ß. «.apparuerit, quam rectissme &diljgentilsime delineavi atque hic transmisi. An vero Mense Jun. Jul. & Aug.cum plane Rotundum conspexeritis, ut volunt Parißenses , vix mihi imaginaripossum. Etenim utut Brachia Saturni ad latera apparuerint arctillima, eti-am Tubo 60 vel 70 Pedum 3 haud tamen credo, ea omnino evanuisse, itaut ne Vestigium aliquod fuerit reliquum. Fortasse Parißenses Tclelcopiis bre-vioribus in ipso Crepusculo, Luna praesente, Saturnum contemplati sunt.

oft Darb, ; by to. Ocl. ia. with my less Tube I thought I law lomething on each sideAfr.Flainsteed. 0 f Saturn, amidst the Colours of my Olafs, and the Spurious Rays of his

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Body. Directing my longer Tube ( of 14 Feet) to him, I could sce hisAns.e somewhat more distinctly, but very flender, and .to onc, that thought,not of them, Icarce dilcernable.

Ncv. 30. I oblerved him with my 14 Foot Telescope, the Aperture bcingi; Inch, and its Eye-Glals drawing two Inches. He appeared perfecily•Rpund, free trom Rays and Colours, and no Ans<t to be Icen. Mr. Temnicyin his last f Nw. i c.J telis me, that he lookcd at him one Night, and couldM Cailini ^ ^ardly distinguish his Line of the AnJuLc, but plainly läw a dark Line through‘ n . xa/p^igo. him near his upper part.

11. Dcc. 16. we sound that Satum had retaken his Rpund Figur e.ix. Jun. 2.7. m. 167 y. Saturnum Patulis auctum Anßs v dimus.

13. In Anguß, ThcFigurcuf Saturn appcar’d, as Fig. 137.

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