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f. d. m. sec. The Suns Mean Anomaly 9 21 13 52 The Moons Mean Anomaly 7 9 31 43 The Place of her Apogeum 5 7 40 31 The Place of her Node 0 21 38 20 The Suns true place, ♈︎ 29 55 25 The Moons true place, ♉︎ 0 23 46 With North-Latitude 0 45 47 The Point culminating, ♌︎ 11 6 29 The Horoscope, ♏︎ 0 1 20 The Altitude of the Moons Center 0 44 10 The Parallactical Angle 33 55 35 The Parallax of the Moon from the Sun in Altitude 0 59 39 Longitude 0 49 30 Latitude 0 33 18 Therefore the Moons visible place, ♈︎ 29 34 16 In Antecedence of the Sun 0 31 9 With Visible North-Latitude 0 12 39 The distance of the Sun and Moons Centers 0 24 34 The Suns Semi-diameter 0 15 49 The Moons Semi-diameter 0 16 7 Summe 0 31 56 Parts defective 0 7 22 dig. Therefore the digits darkn'd 2 47 40 The Inclination of this Phasis above the Ecliptic is 0 30 33 deg. And from the Suns Zenith 115 31 33


By this Calculus it appears, that the Sun is so far from not being eclipsed, than he is obscured near 3 digits in the setting.

Now to find, when the Eclipse begins, I re-calculate the places of the Sun and Moon to 6 h. 46 m. P. M. and investigate

d. The Suns place, 'T l9 The Moons placéi bf 0 With North-Latitude ° The Mid-heaven, Sl, 6 The Point descending, *V* 17 The Altitude olithe Moons Center ° The Parallaélical Angle 3; Altitude o The Parallax. of:he Moon from ~ Longitude; 0 he sm' m Latitude. 0 The Moons Visible place, . of 29 With Visible North- Latitude . 9 left then at 7 b. g m. by o Ergo§ , The Angle of the Moon! visible my g wich the i clip lick Q 1 The Anglc.~ of Incidence in the beginning 2 3 9 I/lonon lecsx from Gb. 46 rn. zo chehingxoazion pa. 44- 19 $0 18 xo 14- 40 33 56 S4- 2-3 16 Z 2.6 18 5 3 filersThe-