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we can have with great Exactness the Fall of the Moon, or of the Earth, and of the Center G in two Minutes Time toward the Sun, in Decimals of the [[underlined]] Paris [[/underlined]] Tool; and since that Fall of G is directed towards O, therefore we shall have the very Radius or Distance GO corresponding to that Fall, with great exactness in [[underlined]] Paris [[/underlined]] Feet also. And so the Parallax of the Center O being known, we shall be able to connect the whole Theory of the Moon, as well as the supposed Distance betwixt the Center of the Moon and of the Earth; and even to determine the Parallax of the Sun; and likewise the common Center [[insertion]] ^ of [[/insertion]] Gravity of the Moon, of the Sun, and of the Earth; and the common Center of Gravity of the Earth and of the [[strikethrough]] Earth [[/strikethrough]] Moon. For this last Center of Gravity is greatly nearer to the center of the Earth than Sir [[underlined]] Isaac Newton [[/underlined]] did suppose: As, on the contrary, the common Center of Gravity of the Sun and of the Earth, is a great deal farther from the Center of the Sun, and much nearer to the Earth, than Sir [[underlined]] Isaac Newton [[/underlined]] took it to be. 4. For, if so the Fall LH arising from the bare Gravity of the Moon toward the Earth, we add y [[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] little Fall Hh, neglected here by Sir [[underlined]] Isaac Newton [[/underlined]], and arising from the Sun's Parallax, and from the Obliquity of the Action of the Sun upon L in reference to the Line LT; and if we draw Hi parallel to LS (as Exponent of the whole Fall of y [[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] Moon, or of y [[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] Earth, or of the Center G, in two Minutes Time, t[[insertion]] ^ o [[/insertion]]ward the Sun) we can never suppose that hi might amount to half a Foot; and much less that it might amount to a whole Foot. For according to Sir I. N. As the Radius; is to 7.6228760: So is LH supposed even of 60, 447 Feet; To HI, w[[superscript]] ch [[/superscript]] would come forth only of 0,253653 of a Foot. But LH is rather of 53,12725 Feet; as being the Fall in two Minutes from the Height of 64 Semidiameters. And this would reduce HI to 0,22294. 5.