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More Judicious are defirous to know how often anddt 
what time their Conjundions happen ^ that by compare- 
ing their Tables of thefe Planets Motions with theob- 
ferved appearance, they may be the betser able to corred 
them and render them more agreeable to the Heavens^ 
Examineing our Ancient Ephemerides I do not find that 
Three ConjnnSions of Saturn and Jupiter have ever hap. 
ned in one years fpace, fince they were firft in ufe to this 
prefent. Thofe of Moletius Calculated from the Alphon-^ 
fine Tables indeed make three ui the fpace of Eight 
Months betwixt jiugufl i<^6^. znd/tpril 1564 inclurive. 
But the Ephemerides oiStadim Calculated from the Prute- 
nick^.mzkt onely one, onthea6 of Augufioi which Ja«- 
gives us the following Obfcrvation in the Preface 
to his Aftronomical Tables, jinno 1565, Augujii 7j[.hora 
I4. 36 poji Meridiem Aurangte^ Jupiter a parte feptentrionis conjifrB''9>t 
€OoperiebcU ^«^'Saturnum, qui erath parte Meridionali^ utra^ ^'^^ ^ « 
quedutem hitum Stellarum» in fine zZgradus Cancri deprehen- 
debatur^ RiccioU hence concludes that the Planet Jupiter 
Covered fbme part of Saturn at this time. But without 
reafon > for the v/ovds quafi cooperiebat intimate not that 
the one did corporally cover the other* but rather that 
there was fbme fmall Interval betwixt them. TheC^- 
r(?&W tables make the vifible latitude of Saturne now ii^ 
45'', of Jupiter 26 10' both North, the Conjunction be- 
ing ibme few dayes paft : but becaufe their latitudes alter 
flowly we may hence conclude the difference 8^ 25' to 
have been nearly theirdiflance at that time,ihefe Tables be 
ing grounded on the Tychonick obfervations made with^ 
in lefs than 40 years after , and fliewing the Latitudes of 
the Planets well at this time near 1 00 years later we may 
conclude to have anfwered them as well then -, and if we 
confider how fmall a fpace the diftance of 8 i minutes ap- 
pear to the naked eye in the Heavens ^ efpecially betwixt 
two fiich bright Planets as Saturn zwd Jupiter are> that the 
€aroline diftance agrees very well with the words otjfuncti» 
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