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known a!fo that when Ihe is in this pofture, 

 being looked upon by the naked Eye ftie ap- 

 pears (that we may accommodate all to fen^ 

 fible Meafures) to be Magnitvdims Tedalis r 

 about a foot broad. But the fame Moon be- 

 ing looked upon juft as fhe rife, fhe appears 

 to be three or four foot broad, and yet if 

 with an Inftrnment we take her Diameter, 

 both in one pofture and t'other, we fhall find 

 that ftill Ihe (hall be but 30 Minutes ; the 

 feveral ways of trying this I will not mention, 

 they being as various as are the Methods of 

 taking the Moons apparent Diameter, com- 

 mon enough among the Aftronomers neither 

 will I infift upon the truth of the Matter of 

 Fad, for that I think cannot reafonably be 

 queftioned, after fo many trials and fo many 

 experiments thereof, faithfully recorded by 

 undoubted WitnefTes; and it would be very 

 unreafonable to imagine that fo many Au- 

 thors fhould rack their Brains for folving an 

 appearance wherein they were not certain 

 of the matter of Fadl'. But becaufe of Nul- 

 lim in Kerb a , I can afTert that 1 have ac- 

 curately tryM it my felf, and I have fo 

 found it : One of the ways I proceeded was 

 thus j I took a very good Telefcope of about 

 6 foot long, in the inward Focus of whofe 

 Eye-Giafs I apply'd a very fine Lattice made 

 of the lingle hairs of a Man's Head ^ then 

 looking with this at the Moon when fhe was 

 juft rifen and looked extraordinary big, lob- 

 ferved what number of the fquares of the 

 Lattice were occupy'd by her Body j then ob- 

 serving her again, when more elevated and 

 free from all extravagant Greatnefs, I ftill 



found 



