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m itsfirft (cituatiou, it appeared leaft in this, becaufe it was 
almoft in a circle that paffed through the center of the Sm^ 
who(e equal arches are by fo much the more oblique, by how 
much they approach more to the limb of his dtfque, and con= 
fequentiy appear lefs, according to the rules of Opticks i 
mean time the diameterjthat was turned from South to North5 
flipparenily kept the fame bignefs it had near the center, be- 
caufeit was in a circle almott parallel to the hon^{ono[ the Sun, 
which formed the reprefentation of its limb , and whofe 
equal arches (by the fame Optical realons) do^not appear 
contra<!Jed. 
Obfervations concerningS^^inxn^ made in the fame place with the 
former, 
A T the fame time that New Spots of the Sun began to 
appear^ Signor obferved in Saturn alfo fomething 
remarkable, in regard of the un- expelled Change of his 
Figure. Ailronomc rs know, thatthis i'lanetis for the moft 
epArticen with Arms or Anjes fiftned to the two fides of his 
difque, when he is beheld with (ome great Telefcope^ and 
.that he retaketh not his J{pund Figure, but every fifteenth year. 
This Change was to come to pafs this prefcnt year, and Sa» 
turn to appear in that Round Figure, withouc his Anfes ov 
Handles, according to the and Predidlions of M. 
Mugens, publifli't i 659 5 which indeed hath fo hapned,but 
not juft within the time he had appointed : For this Spherical 
figure of Saturn (hould not have appeared, according to his 
fuppofitions, but in the month of July and Augujl, and fo 
-continued for the reft of the time that ^<3^2^r« was to bevifible 
at this time, and evenfor aparcof his appearance in the next 
year 5 but this Roundnefs hath been perceived fconer^ and 
baturn hath appeared orbicular fince the end of yl/ij', at a time 
when he was diftant enough from ihe Sun and the Horizon, 
to be well obferved* He hath remained in this figure unto 
the Eleventh oi AuguJl.Tht faid S'g'ior Cajfifiidid then obferve 
him thus 5 but //;r^^ days after he law him with Arms^ though 
very narrow onesjwhich do ftill continue They are repre- 
ientcd in Takljig^^. SceM W^X^iVLcnerbelow. 
Monfieur 
