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200) [[left margin note]] March 21, 323 A.C. [[\left margin note]] [[start table: each row is transcribed as one paragraph]] 44 by [[underline]] Aristarchus [[/underline]] 23° 51' 20" [[subscript]] Interval 70y[[superscript]][[rs?]][[\superscript]].0'.0".[[\subscript]] 114 [[underline]] Eratosthenes [[/underline]] 23 51 20 [[subscript]] Inter. 60.--[[\subscript]] 174 [[underline]]Hipparchus[[\underline]] 23 51 20 In the year of our Lord Interv. 289y[[superscript]][[rs?]][[\superscript]].--0'.0"[[\subscript]] 140 by [[underline]]Ptolomy[[\underline]] 23° 51' 20" [[subscript]]Inter. 740Y[[superscript]][[rs?]][[\superscript]].--16'.20"-.1,32" [[?]]Y[[superscript]]r[[\superscript]].[[\subscript]] 880 [[underline]]Albategnius[[\underline]] 23 35 00 [[subscript]]---190--1.0.-0,31[[\subscript]] 1070 [[underline]]Arzacheles[[\underline]] 23 34 00 [[subscript]]----70--1,0--0,86[[\subscript]] 1140 [[underline]]Almeones[[\underline]] 23 33 00 [[check-mark check-mark]]1100 [[underline]]Prophatius[[\underline]] 23 32 00 1460 [[underline]]Peurbachius[[\underline]] 23 28 00 [[subscript]]--55-+[[0?]].24-+0,44[[\subscript]] 1515 [[underline]]Copernicus[[\underline]] 23 28 24 [[subscript]]--81-+3..6-+2,30[[\subscript]] 1596 [[underline]]Tycho[[\underline]] 23 31 30 [[subscript]]--4--0.30--7,50[[\subscript]] 1600 [[underline]]Clavius[[\underline]] 23 30 00 [[subscript]]--20-0.0--0,0[[\subscript]] 1620 [[underline]]Kepler[[\underline]] 23 30 00 [[subscript]]--70-1,.0--0,86[[\subscript]] 1690 [[underline]]Flamstead[[\underline]] 23 29 00 [[subscript]]-47-0..40-0,85[[\subscript]] 1737 [[underline]]Maraldi[[\underline]] 23 28 20 [[end table]] Now I have thought of a Method that will go a great Way towards the Determination of this Dispute, especially with regard to the later Observations, and this is to be done by a Quadrant, the Radius of which is no less than six Miles in Length. I make no doubt, but at first Sight this will be taken to be nothing but a wild [[underline]]Chimera,[[\underline]]and yet nothing upon Examination will appear more plain or practicable. What I mean, is a [[underline]]Solar Occultation[[\underline]] behind a Hill called the [[underline]]Cloud[[\underline]], on the Borders of [[underline]]Staffordshire[[\underline]]; which Dr Plot has given the World and Account of about 60 years ago.* This Hill is so situated with respect to the Church-yard of [[underline]]Leek[[\underline]], a Market-town in the same County, and six Miles distant from the Hill, that a Spectator standing there of an Evening three or four Days before the 10th of [[underline]]June[[\underline]], when the Sun enters the Beginning of [[line across the bottom of the page to separate text from footnote]] [[footnote]] *See his Nat.Hist. of Staffordshire, p.[[2?]]. [[end footnote]] [[end page]]