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"^^time Saturn meln motion is 8* oi^ 48^ ']upitei*s Uhe 
fame above one Revolution. 
Thefe are commonly termed rhe Leffer of the great Cort« 
junftions , which continue in Signs of the fame Triplicity 
for ro* Revolutions to each other or 198 Years: each 
Con junftion according to the mesn Motions being 8^ 02^5 
48' i removed from the Preceding > fo that if any Con* 
jiinftion was made upon the firft point of r the next fo!- 
I^wmg ftlall be in 20 of ^ and all the following for 198 
y^rs ihallfall in r a and figns of theiarae Triplicity. 
But the Elevench Conjundlioji afcer fliall happen in 
the firft degree of and the following Ten Conjunflions 
in « nje and Signs of the fame Triplicity. Of thefe the 
Firft is called by our Aftrologers the Greater Conjun- 
€tion. 
But the greateft is^ when after 43 Conjunvtions com- 
pleated in ^53 years 235 days, the mean Conjuntbons 
having been made in all the figns return to that point of 
the Ecliptick^ horn v/htt\CG they began.- tho I mdft con- 
fefs had 1 been to name them I fhouid have Called thofe the 
Greate/iy^ch happen in the figns s and si becaufe then 
the Planets rife higheft/ and are longfeft vifible in our 
Horizoa , as alio being near their North Nodes , they ap* 
preach neareft^and if they have any extraordinary influence 
(which Naboyd thinks either they have nor, or if they 
have^ we uhderftand not) it muft according to their Axt- 
omes be ftrbngeft. 
Thofe which happen in and -5 1 ftiould call the Greater 
or MiW^Z-^jbecaufe the Planets beingfthen near th ir South 
Nodes,may approach each other again very nearly tho they 
rife not high in our Horrizoj^i ^ being in Southern bigns 5 
the reft might be accounted the LeJIer or Ordimry, 
the mean Conjuncaion of Saturn znd Jupiter this year 
1683. wason the Fourteenth day of January old itile at 
1:1 hours after Noon in the Meridian of Low^^o/^, at which 
time the mean motions of both the Planets were4' ii«45/ 
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