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[[left margin notes:  From the Gents. Mag. P. 95. 1738.]]
[[underline]] An Impartial and clear Decision of the Controversy, between the Followers of Sir [[/underline]] I. Newton, [[underline]] and Mr. [[/underline]] Facio, [[underline]] concerning the Sun's Parallax. [[/underline]]

   I Publish now a most easy and decisive Method of observing the Sun's Parallax; that I may overcome, at once, those almost universal Prejudices, which would not yield, hitherto, even [[strike through]] to [[strike through]] to the clearest Demonstrations. 

2.  I was not quite eighteen years [[strike through]] of [[/strike through]] old, when I did write down this Method, in a long Letter directed from [[underline]] Geneva [[/underline]] to the illustrious [[underline]] Monsieur Cassini: [[underline]] It contained some Mathematical and Astronomical Discoveries, as I conceived; and among them the Method of finding the Parallax of the Sun, by the Distance between Time, or the Place, wherein the Light of the Moon seems terminated by a right Line; and the Time or the Place of the Moon's coming to her Quadrature.

3.  I demonstrated, in the same Letter to [[underline]] Monsieur Cassini [[/underline]], the Theorem which I had then discovered, and which has enabled me to find the Sun's parallax, namely,
[[left margin note:  I think this refers to fig. 45 [[strike through]] on plate [[/strike through]] A5.]] That two points S and T being given; and the Line SL being to LT in a given Proportion; the Locus of the Point L is a given Spherical Surface.  So early did Providence give a Sign, or Token, of her Manifesting one Day, as she does now to Mankind, that Great and abstruse Secret, so long and so earnestly sought for; but which hitherto has been an Occasion of great, not to say prodigious, Errors!  And in that Letter I demonstrated also, from the straight [[underline]] Fascia [[/underline]], which Mr [[underline]] Hugens [[/underline]] had so often observed in the middle of the Globe of [[underline]] Saturn, [[/underline]] that the Axis of that planet, about which it may be supposed to revolve; must be sensibly parallel to the Plane of Saturn's periodical Orbit.  

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