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Apurfmtofthet^ewVlanet, 
BU T the Sky beiog over-caft for many daysjdid interrupt 
our obfervatiods. However wc faw Saturn Novmb, li^ 
i6. 17, 19; 25 5 and obferved^that be was yet more approached 
to the Fixed ftarS;, h^d, but wc could find no foot-ftep ac all of 
the New Planet, Andwc had litde hopes left: us, of finding 
himagaioby the fame Telcfcope, by which he had appeared 
very fmall towards the end. Nbtwithftanding 3 whileft we 
CKpedrcd a greater Tclefcope, we were not wanting, during 
fome iatcrvals of fair weather, tofsek, if we might not again 
meet with fome fiich Star about Saturn; 
Sit Tab. We found then Decemk 16. of the fame year, that Saturn 
ii.F/^-i. had retaken his round figurejand that onihe Eaft of him there 
was a (mail ftatj f ar diftant, in a ftraight lio ; to Saturnj and 
to his ordinary Satellir, which was Oriental alfo, but little di- 
ftantfromSaturm And Dece^h.%^,wc faw this Satellit in the 
Weftj and a Star, Oriental likewife, lefs diftant from Saturn 
than that we had feen the 1 6th. But the weather did not per- 
mit us to verifie, whether it was the fame. At Iength,5^^^««/^f<. 
i8.'Q35 255 of the y^ar i672* we faw on the Weft af Saturn, 
fometimes one ftarsfometimes many, far diftantjalmoft in a di- 
rcfl: line to his ordinary Satellit } which made us hope to Tee 
another time the New Planet towards his greatcft Weftcrn di- 
greffionj but thef^ Obfervations were the laft , which the 
weather fufFered us to makej bcforeSaturn did abfcond him- 
felf in the beams ofthe Sua, 
We re^prefent in the fecond Table FigJl, fome of thefe inter- 
rupted Obfervationsj though they be but made by the efti- 
mateof the Eye^ and we then wexe not able to make out what 
kind of Stars they were. 
After my return from a voyage oiFrovence^ having brought 
with me from MarfeiUes, in the beginning of Novemb. i6t2. 
an excellent Telefcope of 35 foot^ v^\{\QhCdmfam had made 
by order of his Ma jefty 3 we fet it up in the Royal Obfervatory, 
direfting it to Saturn, as Iboo as the weather would give leaver 
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