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32 degrees, which will change in future time so that the constellation 

 wherein the sun is in its greatest height is always to be of 32 degrees ; 

 be it known also that in the first climate summer falls in the signs 

 of Aries, Taurus, Gemini ; autumn in those of Cancer, Leo, Virgo ; 

 winter in those of Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius ; spring in Capricor- 

 nus, Aquarius, and Pisces; in these parts, that is in the northern 

 ones, it is the contrary. If you wish to know in which of the 28 

 lunar stations the sun rises, you proceed as follows; — add to the num- 

 ber of degrees in which the sun is found that day, the number 8 ; 

 give to each station 13, except Spica to which you give 14, and if 

 the year be an intercalar one you give also 14 to Resha (fi in the 

 Andromeda) ; the beginning of numbering is in our times el Awwa 

 (/3,-y,8,£e in Virgo) because the beginning of Awwa falls in the 22nd 

 degree of Spica, and the end of it in the beginning of Libra, that is to 

 say the beginning of it retards eight degrees. 



But the stations of the moon proceed with the eighth sky in 70 years 

 one degree, according to which you must operate. Where the number 

 beginning from el Awwa P,-y,s,&£ in Virgo terminates at sunset, u—^^s 

 £>«*«,£ there the station of the moon is rising ; for example — if you 

 wish to know which station of the moon is rising at sunset on the 

 first of Ramazan in the year 961, you find the sun in the seventeenth 

 degree on the 1 42nd day of the year of constellations. Add to it the 

 number 8, you get 150; begin then from el- Awwa, the 13th station, 

 counting for each station 13, but to Spica 14; six days to the 24th sta- 

 tion /3 and £ in Aquarius ; six days having elapsed since the rise of 

 this station, called Saadessofood, so that there remain nearly seven 

 days. Be it known also that the beginning of el-Awwa at the end of 

 the 23rd degree of Spica, and its retard of eight degrees from the begin- 

 ning of Libra, happened in the year of the Alexandrine era 1749, 

 that is to say in the time when the tables of Ulagbigh were made. 

 This book has been composed in the 1865th year of the era of Alexan- 

 der (the Sileucian) 1553 s. e. so that 116 years have elapsed between. 

 In this case each station has moved nearly two degrees in our 

 time, and it is therefore necessary to add to the number of the 

 solar degrees the number six ; seventy years hence when the stations 

 shall have proceeded one degree more, the number jive must be added 

 and so on till the beginning of the 13th station {el-Awwa) shall 

 come to the beginning of Libra, in which time no number shall be 

 added ; when afterwards the end of Isarfa (the 12th station) shall 

 come to the beginning of Libra the number 12 must be added, and you 



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