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In theinterimj faith he^ th^oihti: Comet could be fecn with 
the naked tyt until January 3 1 . when it was more than ten times 
further remote, than in its Fcrlgee, although it was not by far fo 
bright, nor its ftrcamer fliining as this hath appeared. 
He wiflies, ?hatail the changes thatfliall fall out in this Comet , 
might be exactly obferv'dsbecaufe of its not bcing fwift,and the 
Motion of the Earth very fenfible, unlefs the Comet be extream- 
ly remote, we (liould find much more hght from » his, than the 
former Star, about the Grand Queftion , whether the Earth 
moves or not ; this Author having all along entertained himfelf 
with the hopesj that the Motion of Comets would evince , whe-^ 
ther the Earth did move or not x, and this very Comet feemed to 
him to have by defign appeared for that end, if it had had more 
Latitude, and that confequently we might have feen it before 
Day-break. He wiihes alfo, thatj if poffible, it may be accu- 
rately obfervedj whether it will not a little decline from its great 
Circle towards the South-, Judging, that fome important truth 
may be thence deduced, as well as if its motion retarded more, 
than the place of its Perigee ( which wW be more exacStly known 
when all the paffed Oblervations rtiall have been obtained) and 
its greateft Motion doe require. 
He fears only, that it being then to rife at Break of Day, ex- 
ad: Obfervations cannot be made of it : but he would, at leaft 
have it (ought with Tele/copes.^ his Ephcmerides diredring where^ % 
about it is ro be. 
April 10. it was to be over ^igaiiift the point of the Triangle , 
and from thence more Southerly by more than two degrees, and 
April 1 1 . over ag;ainft the bright Star of Aries : April 1 7. over 
againft the Stars of the F/y, a little more cS'^?/i!^/j^/7y^ and May 4> 
it is to be over againft the Pleiades, and about the fourth or fifh 
of the fame Month, it is to be once more in Conju?iUion with the 
Su7i ; after which time, the5'^;^ will move from it Eaftveard^ and 
leave it towards the fF^T?; which will enable us to lee it again 
at abetter honr, provided the cleernefs of the Day-break be no 
impediment to us, Headdeth, that this Star muft have been 
the third tiiife in CenjunBion with the Smi, about the time when 
it firft began to appear: and forefees, thatfrom all thefe par- 
ticulars many confiderable confequences may be deduced. 
