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Jte/ult of the Obfervaitons 



VIII. Table of the Geocentric Longitudes .ind Latitudes 0^ 

 the new Star, both .by Obfervalion and Calculation j tOr 

 gether with their DJflert;nces. 



IX. The correfpondence of the obferved longitudes of this 

 {tar with thofe calculated according to the circular hypothefis; 

 jts motion in the zodiac, from which it deviates only a little 

 in its greateft latitudes ; audits pofition between Mars and 

 Jupiter ; feeni to leave no doubt that it is a real planet, and, 

 in all probability, the very fame deduced from calculation in 

 the year 1772 by profeflTor Bode, and announced to the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences of Beilin. That it was not then obferved, 

 though the zodiac was diligently examined by the bed aftro- 

 nomers, ought to be afcribed chiefly, in my opinion, to its 

 fmallnefs compared with its diftance from the earth and with 

 its greateft latitudes ; though it is not improbable that it was 

 feen by the abbe De la Caille or Tobias Meyer. In the ca- 

 talogues of the ftars made by thefe two aftronomers there 

 are lome obferved only once ; which I have not been able to 

 find, though I fearched for them repeatedly and at different 

 times. If the original obfervations of Meyer are preferved 

 at Giittingen, and thofe of the abbe De la Caille at Paris, 

 they may poflibly. be yet difcovered. In the end of my work 

 on the pofition of the fixed ftars, the printing of which, 

 through the munificence of our gracious fovereign, is already 

 far advanced, there will be given a catalogue of the loft 

 ftarSj by which this refearch will be greatly facilitated. 



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