386 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
a Burckhardt’s and Damoiseau’s Tables with the heavens, 
ot by diminishing the supposed secular mean motion of the 
Moon, but. ae oon its 1 Sabesar opines This proceed- 
and 
move, in 100 years, 9 signs, s, 7 degrees, 53 minutes, and 10 
eet but, in 1722 B. C,, the place of the Moén was at leas 
speck that place till an 12 mnie isis It may be pone 
hat the Egyptian astronomers observed the Moon one hour 
izon 
_ And this result agrees perfectl: with the anciénte ip- 
SES ; firialieny ety 752. Bi celstSno earn pero 
later in . conjunction with the Sun, un, and the’ eclipse was 
