afterhehad feenit (ashimfelf affirms) but 4 or 5 times. 
tht FirtHoji of England^ among otherSj might compare alio their 
Obfervations with his Ephemerides ^ either to conrirm tht Hjpo^ 
fhejis^ upon which the Author had before hand calculated the 
way of this Star ^ or to undeceive him , if he be in a miftake. 
Tiie (aid Author Dedicateth thele his conceptions to the moft 
Ghriftian King^ telling him, that he prefents Him with a dcfign, 
which never yet was undertaken by any Ajirommer all the 
World having been hitherto perfwaded^ that the motions of 
were fo irregular, that they could not be reduced to any 
LawSj and men having contented themfelves, to ob(erve ex- 
a&ly the places^through which they did pafsj but no man, thathe. 
knows, having been fo bold as to venture to foretel the places, 
through which they Jbould pafi ^ and where they fliould ceafc to 
appear: Whereas he exhibits here the E/^A^/^er/Wi?/, determi- 
ning day by day , in what place of the Heavens this (hall? 
be, at what hour it fliall be in its Jlderidjan, and at what hour 
it (hall let 3 until its too great remotenefi , or. the approach of 
the[Sun^5 hide it from our eyes. Defending to particulars, he 
faith, that this Star, being difengaged from the beams of the Sun, 
might have been oblerved , if his con jeftures be good, ever 
finceit hath been of 17 or 18 d^gxtts Southern Latitude^ and 
that about the middle of Nopember\^{\.^ and fooner , unlefi it 
have been too fejall :. Thathowever ithath beenfeciiinif-c?/^^^^ 
ever fincethc '2d, oi December Izii^ at which time , according 
to his reckoning, the Diurnal motion of the Comet fcould alrea- 
dy amount to 17 or 18 mitiuts. He finds, that this Stat mo- 
veth juji enough in the Plan of a Great Circk ^ which inclineth to 
tht EquinoSial about 30 degrees, and to the Eclipticli dhoxxt 
49^. or 49 t, cutting the £<7//^^<?r at about 45 ^. i, and the 
Ecliptic the 2%d. of Aries ^ or a little more. He (zkhjuji 
enough^ becaufe he thinks, there may perhaps be {omc paraliaxe-^ 
which he wiflieth could be determined. 
HencCjCjS he goes on^ every one who pleafeth.may fee,in tracing 
the C^?/^er upon the C/c^/^e, through , or by which Starrs it hath 
palled and fliall pafs^ adding, that there will be neither cm(c 
to wonder, that having defcended to about 6, degr.beneath the 
Tropic k^oi Capricorn^ he hath rempunted afterwards, and (hall go 
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