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celerat!« motus lunaris negari necuit; atratio Phaenomeni locum non habet, cuiigitur substitui poterit ratio ea, quae supra

37. allegatur.

Nimirum si observatio eclips. Lun. anti-quissima Babylone intra29 & soThot A. 1.Mardokempad, hoc est, juxta Calenda-rium Julianum d. 19. IVlart. ante H). 721,facta, comparetur cum tabulis motuum lu-nae mediorum, quae motum lunae aequabi-lem supponunt, locus lunae, secundum ta-bulas computatus, non respondebit loco lu-nae in cocio.

Flures observationes hanc in rem, interfe & cum tabulis comparatas videas in Phi-los. transactions, London 1750. Nr. XIV.ubi continetur a Letter from the Reverend.Mr. Richard Dunthorne &c. concerning theacceleration of the Moon.

In hac epistola celeb. autor tabulam cor-rectionis adornat, eamque his verbis ex-ponit : Jf we take this acceleration (motuumLunae) to be uniform, as the obfervations \where npon it is grounded , are not fu fp cient \to prove the contrary, the aggregat of it\Kill be as the Jquare of Time; and if we fip - 1post it, to bt io" in 100 Tears, and that\

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