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1016 11/12 and 983 1/12; And may be found either by easy and accurate Observations, as I shall demonstrate; or even by Calculations of the Place of the Moon, adapted to proper Suppositions and Times; and also by former or future Determinations of Astronomers.  And at the same rate, the Excentricity æ would be 1000.

13.  Now as CS, that is hh/E or hh/e; Is to CP or h:  So is r, the Radius of the Tables, to rE/h or re/h:  which is the Sine of y [[superscript]] e [[/superscript]] Parallax of the Sun in reference to the Orbit of the Moon; or the Sine of the greatest Elongation of the Moon from the Center of the Earth, as seen from the Center of the Sun, when the Line drawn from the Center of the Sun, to the Center of the Moon, is a Tangent of the Stereographic Sphere OLP or olp.

14.  Likewise, supposing that the Proportion of the Lines CT and TS is determined; as it is indeed in Nature:  Then, 1/ST² , is to 1/SC² ; As TF or Tf, made Exponent of the Gravitation in the Region of the Earth and of the Moon towards the Sun; Is to TF/SC² x ST²; or to Tf x ST² / SC² that is, To the correspondent Exponent of the Gravitation in O towards the Sun. Which Gravitation being also as 1/SC²; by the know propriety of Gravity:  it follows, that TF x ST² or Tf x ST² is a determined quantity; and that, by consequence, TF or Tf is reciprocally as ST².  And so TF or Tf may safely be made the Measure or Exponent of the Force by which the Earth and the Moon and their Common Center of Gravity are drawn toward the Sun, in an equioriral Triangle LST, by the bare Force of their Gravitation toward the Sun.

15. And if the Proportion of ST to CT be determined; or else be chosen at discret[[insertion]] ^ i [[/insertion]]on, And then TF or Tf be found or supposed greater or smaller:  This would argue that the Sun has, in the