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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