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scribed in equal Times, by the Line which joins the Centers of the Moon and of the Earth. And that Number being doubled, and from the Sun subtracting 41,964, we have 908,417 for the Distance betwixt the Center of the Earth and the Orbit's second Focus, about which the Angles described by Center of the Moon are sensibly equal in equal Times. And, supposing that the Axis of the Moon's Spheroid be turned directly toward the second Focus; I find that the said Axis would make an Angle of 5 [[o]]11' 44" with Line drawn from the Center of the Earth to the the Center of the Moon, at the Moment of her first or of her last Quadrature.
 21. And likewise when the Excentricity is the greatest of all, I find that the same Line would make with the Axis of the Spheroid an Angle of 7[[o]]51'36". [[underlined]] viz, [[/underlined]] keeping still the same Number 41,964 as does Sir[[underlined]] Isaac Newton. [[/underlined]] Tho', if we would make his Numbers consistent with one another, we ought rather to write 42 2/3 for the Winter Stereographic Orbit: Which would increase a little that Angle.
22. Now let us suppose that, at the Instant of a Geocentric Quadrature of the Moon, the Center of her Orbit be in Conjunction with the Sun: Which may happen both in the Moon's Apogee and in her Perigee; and is a Disposition the most contrary to that which results from a Stereographic Orbit. And therefore that Disposition of the Orbit of the Moon may be called an [[underlined]] Anti-Stereographic Orbit[[/underlined]]. 
23. I say then that in an Anti-Stereographic Orbit, if the Center of the Orbit of the Moon, at the Moment of her Geocentric Quadrature, b