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stretched raw - Silk: And with it to observe long and fully [[underlined]] the Dichotomys [[/underlined]] at any Time of the Year; and even to publish or declare openly their Dates, and what Hours and Minutes [[underlined]] they [[/underlined]] were observed to begin or to end; till the Truth be known:  For this will be sufficient to manifest in favour of which System it is that those Dichotomys decide.  As to the Hour of the Day, it is easy to have it sufficiently known;  nor is, in this, any great Nicety required, if we be concerned only about the Sun's Parallax.
  28. But in reference to [[underlined]] Eclipses [[/underlined]], and more particularly those of fixed Stars, we can never be too nice, when we would find the Longitude by [[underlined]] them [[/underlined]]; or discover the Length of the Moon's Spheroid.
For the great Length of that Spheroid requires a new and hitherto deeply concealed Equation, which ought not to be neglected hereafter.
  29.  And therefore Astronomers provided with excellent Micrometers may make their Observations still more instructive; and may probably plainly perceive, in some Quadratures, and when the full Moon h[[insertion]] ^ a [[/insertion]]ppens to be in a midling Orbit, that the apparent [[underlined]] Diameter [[/underlined]] of the Moon from West, to East is longer, than the Diameter perpendicular to [[underlined]] it [[/underlined]].
(Gent. Mag. 1738. p. 352 &c.)
N. Facio, Duillier.
Worcester
May 17 & Seqq. 1738.