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of what may be expected from my other Methods and Demonstrations. For I hope to show, not only that [[insertion]] ^ the [[/insertion]] parallax of the Sun is very great; but also to give it, or the means to discover it, to an astonishing and almost incredible Degree of Exactness.
24. Any proper Judge may easily see that y[[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] Sun's Parallax made only of 10" 1/2, and even a Parallax of 18", would make the Gravitation of the Moon toward the Sun, greater than her Gravitation toward the Earth. A thing absurd in itself; and contrary to the whole System and to many Demonstrations of Sir [[underlined]] Isaac Newton [[/underlined]]. For then, from the Beginning, the Sun would have stolen away the Moon from us. 
25. The Numbers which I have now given, want many considerable Amendments. They are as yet the Result of some Principles and [[underlined]] Data [[/underlined]], which are partly true and partly false. But I intend to bring them hereafter much nearer the Truth. 

[[underlined]] Lond. July [[/underlined]] 18, 1737. 
N. Facio [[underlined]] Duillier [[/underlined]]
Gents. Mag p. 412