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March 21, 323 A.C.
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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

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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

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*See his Nat.Hist. of Staffordshire, p.[[2?]].
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