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Tahularum JJlronomicarum pars prior ^ de motthm Soils 
Lum^ necnon de pofitme fixarurriy ex ipjts ObferVationibm 
deduBis : cum ufu TabularuMj &c. Juthore Ph. de la 
Hire ^egio Mathefeos Trofejfore ac ^p^e Scientiarum 
JcademU Socio. 4^°- Parifiis. 1687* 
THIS Author, long fince eminent for his Skill in Geo* 
metry, does now fucceed the accurate Mr. Picart in 
the Royal Obfervatory at Paris, and this Book is the firft 
Fruits of his Aftronomical Endeavours. It is chiefly defign- 
cd to teach an accurate method of Calculus fov EclipfeSj efpe- 
cially Solar 5 where he makes ufe of the Contemplation of 
the Conftruftions of them, by the parallel of Latitude fup- 
poied to be projefted into an Ellipfs, which is here attri- 
buted to the excellent Mr. CaJJim^ though firft publifhed in 
EfigliJhhY Mv.Flamfleed in Sir Jonas iWi?(7r's Works, under 
the Title of The DoSrine of the Sphere, and there afferted ta 
its firft Inventor, Sir Chnjiopher Wren, 
What is moft confiderable in this Book, is the large Table 
of the Longitudes and Latitudes of Places, chiefly in France^ 
which have been taken by the King's Order, with great ex- 
aftnefs, and may pofEbly be inferted in the next Tranfa^ion, 
2. A Table of the right Afcenfions and Declinations of fixty 
three principal fixt Stars, to the Year 1686. compleat, dedu- 
ced from new and accurate Obfervations. 3. An Empirical 
Table of the Moons Equations in the New and Full 3 dedu- 
ced fimply from Obfervations of Eclipfts : here the greateft 
is made 4°. 57'. 44'. and the reft nearly ofcillatory, or equal 
at equal diftances either (torn Apcg£on or Perig^on^ which 
our Mr. Street^ in his JJironomia Carolina^ has made precife- 
ly^ fo, only his greateft Equation is about three minutes big- 
ger, 4. A Correftion of the Moons Motion,ariringfirom the 
diftance of the Moon from the Apogaon of the Sun, or which 
is all one, from the Anomaly ot the Sun ; about the Inven- 
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