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[[circled 290]] 2 degrees 17 minutes 3984,11 2 21 4100,31 2 25 4216,63 2 29 4332,88 2 33 4449,12 2 25 114/2906 4228,00 2 26 198/2906 4265,5 2 28 221/2906 4331,9 2 28 284,5/2906 4332, 2 2/3 4228,00 To Mr. [[underline]]Wright[[/underline]], who corrects a Mistake in [[underline]]Gregory's[[/underline]] Astronomy. 4265,5 seems to be the least Excentricity to Mr. [[underline]]Wright[[/underline]], p. 25, l. 33. 4331,9 To Mr. [[underline]]Gregory[[/underline]] in his Astronomy, and to Sir [[underline]]I. Newton.[[/underline]] 4332, 2 2/3 To Sir [[underline]]Isaac Newton,[[/underline]] p. 462. This Table supposes that when the Center of the Earth and of the Sun are at their mean Distance, the Orb of the Moon be reduced to a Stereographic Sphere. And from thence we may estimate also the Sun's Parallax for Summer and Winter, till it be accurately determined by actual Observations. I purpose to shew hereafter how this may be done. 23. If God permit, I intent to give in my next Discourses the Demonstrations of the first and second theorems mentioned above, No 3 and 4: And from them to duduce the most perfect Method of finding the Sun's Parallax; and to give an Example how to calculate it. And then I purpose to go on, to rectify an Error incident to the Observations of fixed Stars eclipsed by the Moon. An Error, I say unavoidable to our best Astronomers, but by an