tainment: of this Honourable Company : in the mean time, 
it it needful to advertife the Reader, that in making the tx- 
periment herein mentioned, the Water ufed, had been faked 
to the fame degree as is the common Sea* water, by the Solu- 
tion of about a 40^^ part of Salt. 
Obfervationes nonnuU^e Eclipfeos Nuperae Solaris, 
Maii I. St. vet. diverfis ia locis habitat, accum Re- 
gia Societate Communicatee. 
HJEC Eclipfis^ et 'iamji contemnend^ quantitatk fuerit, ac 
nudk oculis non omnino perapi potuertt, tamen ad ac- 
cPiratam determinationem TaraUaxis & Latitudinis Lun£ maxi- 
me idonea uidetur. ^apropter q^nas ha^enus ohttnere potuimus 
chfervationes cape Lector Benevole, 
Londini feorfim ohfervantihus Hookio ® Halleio^ Initii 
momentum^ c(bIo licet purijfmo, cl olliquam hcident 'tam Lun£^ 
dehite definire non Ikuit. Sed her a l\ 1 6', jam c£pta erat Eclip- 
fisfatis notahiliter: circa i^.^d , prope medium Eclipjis, Chorda 
partis Rclipfat£ 9 five inter cornm, invent a eft 9'. jo'^ cut refpon- 
det arcus 36 gr. in diametro vero non nifi i', 30", Finis confenfit 
utriujque olfervatoris contigit accurate hora i\ 3/. 00. 
Grenovici in Objervatorio Regio Flamfteedius eadem de can- 
fa hitium nonvidit, finem vero determinavit ^ ^ 15", Me* 
dio Eclipfis five maxima obfcuratione^ Chorda partis Eclipfat£ 
erat 9'. 54 
^/>//^Totteridge prope Londinum verfus Corum, finem videt 
Dominus Haines, Reg. Soc. Soc. ^jf^s^ ^^ 2\ ^antitatem vero 
Maximam Jimidii Digiti, ab Juftro, 
In Infula B2ith^d2L,adOppidur/i Bridge-Town, j^^ Lat. ii gr. 
58'. Finem habuit Dominus Frank i'. 30''. tempork ante quam So^ 
Ik Altitudofuit 31 gr. 47'. ad orfum, hoc eti hora y\ 56'. 
A. M. ^antitatem Maximam aflimatione definivit duorum digi. 
tornm ab Aujlro. Norini- 
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