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B(*). the cantrat wheel at R, and the cock at C, which is thus designed to shew, that this is to be called the [[underline]] upper side, or the top of the frame [[/underline]]; the other parts are suppressed, the better to represent only the necessary ones. Fig. 27. represents the same parts of an ordinary watch, that by comparing the two constructions, the new may [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]]be the easier judged of; [[bold]]F[[/bold]] is the fusee in the common position, the little middle wheel being at [[bold]]M [[/bold]] at the top of the frame.

[[Left margin]] Advantages thereof. [[/left margin]]

This new position of the fusee has not only the beforementioned advantages; but it has also one more above the [[underline]] English [[/underline]] watches, or such as wind up at bottom, which renders the caliber as perfect as possible. For by this inversion of the fusee, its base being, in those watches, on the same side, as the square of the great pivot; the diameters of the pivots, are proportioned to the friction they suffer; whereas in [[underline]] English [[/underline]] watches, the greater [[strikethrough]] [[p?]] [[/strikethrough]] pivot is on the side where the chain draws nearest the centre; that is precisely on the wrong side.

[[printed rather than written]] A Problem; for the use of determining the Times, &C. proper for discovering a meridian by the 3.[[superscript]]d[[/superscript]] way on pag. 53. [[/printing]]

How long, and what time of the year, can [[underline]] Alioth [[/underline]] in the great Bear's Tail, whose Right Ascension is 190°, 56', 10" (given on p. 19) be observed upon the Meridian, [[strikethrough]] both [[/strikethrough]] above and below the pole, of 52° N.? in the Latitu.

Solution. In figs. 35, 36, 37, & 38. (perhaps one might be drawn to serve for all four; for the red lines in the one represent the black ones in the other, and thereby two is sufficient, yet I shall here use the four & only the black lines) [[Aries symbol]]Q = [[Libra symbol]]Q = 10°, 56', 10" the [[underline]] Medium Coeli [[/underline]]; 
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