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Moon at the Times of those Observations. For, beside what may be done in high Buildings fitted for this Purpose; Nature itself offers in our high Hills and Mountains, here and beyond Sea, abundance of Places where we may observe most nicely, with Object-Glasses of a distant Focus, the least Variations in those Meridian Altitudes, or in the Passages of the Sun near some other Parts of the Tropic. And the [[underlined]] Gentleman's Magazine [[/underlined]] of [[underlined]] May [[/underlined]] last, p. 264, mentions one Hill in [[underlined]] Staffordshire [[/underlined]] very fit for this Purpose; beside that Use which Mr. [[underlined]] Brook[[insertion]] ^ e [[/insertion]]s [[/underlined]] proposes to be made of it.
   8. No man can have a greater Esteem for the transcendent Knowledge of Sir [[underlined]] Isaac Newton [[/underlined]], and for the vast Discoveries which he has made in the Mathematicks and in Astronomy, than I have myself.  And I do build in great measure upon the sound Part of his Book.  But if he was not infallible; if he was sometimes greatly mistaken, and even in the System and Divine Frame of this World: Must every Discovery, tho' never so remarkable and useful, be run down, which rectifies any of his Mistakes?  See what he says in his Preface 1686 (printed again in 1726 under his Direction) when he had just been speaking of the Theory of the Moon, [[underlined]] US omnia candide legantur, & defectus in materia tam difficili non tam reprehendantur, guam novis lectorum conatibus investigentur, & benigne suppleantur, enixe rogo. [[/underlined]] Admirably said, Great and Sincere Man!  Were he but alive, I would chuse no other Judge than himself.  For I have, nay others have often tried that he would readily own and correct any of his Oversights or Mistakes:  And I know that he would have perceived and owned, at first Sight, the Soundness of my Demonstrations.  I might justly claim the same Indul-
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