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Antenore Dextro Z'ißt Majoris sextante obtinuerim, atque eadem dicta StellaOTTTTUftttfJeT/rfVieM iri eadem simul fere recta tun? consisterent linea, quedprbmptum sit jcuilibet Rerum Castestium cultori dijudicare, an observationesmkL ; nostro novo simul obtentae, cum observationibus Micrometro

captis omnino etiam conveniant. Sextante Distantia Jcvis a dicta Stella eratp. ä 38' q,-/, & Saturni 3a 0 1 9' 45"; hu ut genuina utriusijue Planet xDistantia extiterit 18^ 5 s ' 1 i Micrometro vero ea ipla Distantia inventa est eaipiii die ii Ic. Maii io' 9'j sic ut Sextante obtenta i' 14". Minor extite-rit 'Non est ijutem, mi Amice, quod existimes, hoc vel illo Instrumento meaber raste, minime prosecto; quippe Saturnus .& Jupiter cum dicta Stella nononnnfiiö in linea recta subsisterunt ; prout cuilibet ex Globo & Calculo patet,hineque necessario illa distantia, Sextante derivata, etiam paulo minor oportuitelfe.

rbrjsr« Coti- j LXXXVII. Riccloli in the Second Part of the..first Tome of his Almageft ,Sa- has given iis aiTable of all the mean Conj.unBiaus of the two Superiors tromtum ani ]upi-tstg Creat ion till the Tcar of C hilft 2.358, .but very course and incorrect. Irrr . fcv Ur. t | lgre f orc made a new one tor 43 Revolutions which are completed in

ter ; by Mr.Flamstced.

49. f. 254-853 Julian Years, and 2.35 Days from their mean Motions which i h .vecorrected by very late Obfervations. .. This being the Period of the GreateftCinjtinElions', aster which Space of Time they return to the siime Place of theT^dirtcj withinl-j of a Degree.

i The Ordinäry ConjunBions happen once inTwenty Years, ormore precise-ly 1 in 19 Juliait Ycars, and 312. Days, in which time Saturns Mean Motioiiis 8 S i° 48'!* Jupiters the fame above one Revolution.

These Iste tommonly termed the Lcftcr of the Great Cotjmuiions , whichcontinue in Signs of the.siame Yriplicity .for 10 Rcvolutions to efech other, oi*108 Years: eich ConjunBion according to the Mean Motions being 8 S 204^s removed-from the-preceeding,--Ib-that st any ConjunBion was-mabe-itp-on the first Point of Y, the next following stiall be in i° 48' of t , and•ali the following for 1 9 8 Years shall fall in Y, and t, Signs of the fameT riplicitj.

But the 11 ConjunBion aster, stiall happen in the first Degree of M, andthe following ten ConjunBions in , W, and V, Signs of the fame T riplicitj.Of these the first is called by our Astrologers the Greater ConjunBions.

But the Greateß is, when aster 43 GonjunBions compleated in 853 Years,135 Days, the Mean ConjunBions having been made in ali the Signs returnto that Point of the Eclipticis from whence they began: tho’ I must confesshad I been to name them I Ihould have called those the Greateft which hap-pen in the Signs S and SI, because then the Planets Rise highest, and arelongest visible in our Horizon, as also being near their North Nodes, theyapproach nearest, and if they have any extraordinsry Influence (which Naboydthinks either they have not, or if they have, we understand not/ it must ac-cording to their Axiomes be strongest.

Those which happen in Yf and I Ihould call the Greater or Middle, be-cause the Planets being then near their South Nodes, may approach each other

again