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(*) In another place, [[underlined]]Baxter[/underlined]] says, "They who place the earth in the center of the system, and suppose the sun to revolve about it, in the fourth place (namely, above the moon, [[underlined]]Mercury[[/underlined]], and [[underlined]]Venus[[/underlined]]) confound this beautiful law of the planetary motions: For, let us suppose the distance of the sun from us was but 12000 semi-diameters of the earth, or 200 times the distance of the moon; and then the cubes of their distances will be 8000000 and 1: The square= roots of which numbers are 2828 and 1. So that the periodical Time of the sun ought to be 2828 times that of the moon: That is, either our present year ought to contain 2828 revolutions of the moon, each consisting of about three hours, six minutes; or our present periodical month ought to be the 2828th part of the year; whence one revolution of the sun would be equal to 211 of our present years. Either of which is monstrous.