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ftruments, at left continually for fome confiderable 
number ot years ; and were with fuch fmall ones to 
attempt (not one or two fingle diftances, but) the Re- 
ftitution of the fixed Stars as himfelf hath done j they 
would be of another mind. But (leaving them to en- 
joy their own opinion j defires at left it may be free 
for him to ufe his own way, wherein he is confirmed 
by the experience of fo many-years s and from which 
he hath many reafons why not to depart. 
The 8'^. from M. Ifmael Bullialdus j and the 9'^. 
{rom Bernhardus Fullemus J (a Dr. of L^n?, and Conful 
oi FranekerJ aregratulatory Letters upon the Edition 
of his Or^anographia and his Inftruments therein defcrib- 
ed; highly commending them, and the great accura- 
cy of the Obiervations made thereby ("of which both of 
them had beenEy-witneffes^and efteem it a great happy- 
nefs fo to have been;) and with fo great exadtnefs 
(within lefs than 6 Seconds) as, without having (een it/'' 
they could 4iardly have believed. And, the latter of 
them ("upon occafion of an Obfervation publiflied by 
Mr. Hoo\, aiming to prove a Parallax of the Earths 
Annual Orbs) declares his fufpicions of the uncertainty 
oiTdefcopick^ Sights^ preferring others before them. 
The 10'^. is of the ^//2^^f?r to D. Fullenius, complain- 
ing of Mr. HqoI(% unhandfcme ufage of him in his 
AnimadverfiQju on the Authors Organographia, or firft 
part of his Machina Cfrlefizs, (then newly come to his 
hands; j As making it his bufinefs, to carp at all his 
Inftruments, and render them furped:ed,v to blacken 
and difparage to the Learned World, all his Gbfer- 
vationsj (which yet he had never feen, nor could fee.) As 
That his Inftruments are not larger than lycho's, nor 
bis Divifions better, nor his Obfervatious more accu- 
rate^ That 'tis not poffible with thole Inftruments 
and the naked Ey, to difcern anintire Minute, or de- 
termine to a Minute either Altitudes or Diftances. And 
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