faialis ad Eclipticam i° i8' 20". quem statuunt Kcplerus i° 19' 00".

Strcetius, i° a.o / oo". Bullialdus & Wingius i° 2i x 48". omnes justo non-nihil Majorem.

Tantamque este Inclinationem, vel saltem non Majorem, cum hesternsenoctis, tum Menstum Februarii Martii & Mali Anni Elapß, observationes sua-dent. Interea vero non diifimulaudum, poste & majorem (scilicet i° zo 1iqII.) a transitu ¥ S prope 8 am W Anno 1649 Maii 29 & 30 St.Juliano ^- ov>

Bonnonia &C Majorca a Rjccioto & Mulo, Viris Doctiisimis, observato Demon- Par. i,j. 710. •(Irari: id quod nobis (si quidem Orbitarum Inclinationes ab omnibus ■ inva-riables habentur,) videtur innuere, Errorem vel huic, vel illis Fixarum La- ^titudinibus a Pychone assignatis, ineste aliquem: quas propterea donec accu-ratius restituantur, a praecisa, hujus Inclinationis quantitate determinanda me-rito nos arcent: Hoc tantum, quoniam Fixarum eae Latitudines etiam Immu-tabiles reperiuntur, ausim affirmare; Angulum Maximse Inclinationis PlaniOrbita Jovialis ad Eclipticam Minorem este scrupulis z 6 ' 40". quam Latitu-do StelU 9 £ Lucis 4 1& qutL T 'ychoni dicitur, Ultima quatuor in Siniftra Ala

Virginis quae propterea si quando correcta dabitur, eadem certa dabitur In-clinatio.

' LXXXVL Examining our 'Ancient Ephimerides I do not find that r.h'ree The conjunSE-ConjunBions of Saturn and Jupiter have ever hapned in one Years space, sincetirey were first in use to this present. Those of Moletius CalcuJated sro.m An. uäSa andthe Alpbonßne Tables indeed mähe three in the space of eight Months betwixt £| 8 3 _- * 4 ^ _August 1^63. and April 1564,. Inclusi ve; but the Ephemerides- of Stadius bj, jfr.- Fiam- ■ iCalculated-from the Prutenicst, make only one, on the 26 of AügujVo( ßl'eed.- n. 14?.-vhich Junctinus gives us the following Obfervation in the Preface to his A- 1 - 2<M -jlronmical Lab/es, An. I s6g. Aug. 2.4 14h gofi p: m. Aurangse, Jupitersjhirte Septentrionis cooperiebat quafi Saturnum, qui erat a parte Meridionali , u-traque autem harum Stellarum, in fine 28 gradus Cancri deprehendebatur, JRJcciolihence concludes, that the Planet h covered forne part of Satum at this time.

But without Reasbn for the words quasi cooperiebat intimate not that the onedid corporally cover the other, but rather that there was söme finali Intervalbetwixt them. The Caroline Tables make the visible Latitude of Satum now. -n / 45". of Jupiter zo' io H . both North, the Conjunction being forne fewdays past : but becaufe their Latitudes alter flowly we may hence conclude theDifterence 8 / z^ 1 . to have been nearly their Distance at that time, theseTa-bles being grounded on the TXcfirm/c^Observätiöh’s made withiri lelsthan 40Tars alter, and staewing the Latitudes of the Planet s well at this' time near u 00Years later we may Conclude to have answered them as weil then ; and if weconlider How finali a space the Distance of 8f minutesappeartothe naked Eye 'in the Heavens, elpecially betwixt two stich bright Planets as Saturn and Ju~ -ftter are, that the Caroline Distance agrees very well with the Words of Jun=

Binus and that BJcdoli was grofly mikaken.

Their next ConjunFtion according to Maginus^ - Ephemerides foundeti on ■tbe Prutenicl^ numbers, was April 29 1583 in 21 Deg. of X, the Sun being ::

•nen in 17 Deg. of 8 so that that Planets Rising before him in Signs of {hort •

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