[1182] 
and then (according to his expedation) when it began 
to be Vefpertine, Dec, 24. and lo onward. Bewailing 
himfelt that he could not, as heretofore , with large 
Inilraments , and long Tele/copes^ obferve this fo re- 
markable a Comet, 
Jan. I. 1681. (NeT(» Stile -y) he obferved the occulta- 
tion of Palihctum by the Moon. 
And Jan, 2. and fo forward, ^having now gotten 
a fmall Inftrument) proceeded (as he could therewith) 
in tjieObfervation ol: the Comet with his Remarks up- 
on it, 
. In Ju^ufl jio\\os9\ng\\Q> had re-built his Obfervatory, 
and gotten fome Inftruments, (but much inferiour to 
what he had loft.) Where his firft Obfervation was an 
Eclipfe of the Moon, Aug, 29. i6%i, fi. n. And, after 
that, another verv great one, Febr, 21, 22. 
Then the Obfervations ofanother Comet 1^82. With 
many others, of the Fixed Stars and Planets. And a- 
mongft the reft, the great Conjun£tions of Saturn^ 
Jupiter y and Mars ; And a Tranfit of Jupiter by the 
Moony obferved ("in the day time) by a Telefcope, Nov. 
21. i6%z. JL n. with many other Tranfits and occul- 
ta t ions. 
After which is a fuccind: account or Hiftory of the 
three great Conjundions of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars^ 
in the years 1^82, 1(^83. 
Then the Obfervations of a Third Comet i(J 8 3, with the 
Hiftory of it. With feveral Tranfits and Occultations. 
He tells us of a Fourth Comet obferved by Blanchinus, 
at ^me, in June, 1584, (but not, that he hears of, by 
any bodyelfe,) at a time when himfelf (by indifpofitiga 
of body) was not in a capacity|^ making Oblerva- 
tions. 
But he wonders how thofe of Lipjich> {ho\x\^ not fee 
t\i\'^ Comet, who pretend (about the fame time) to have 
been the firft difcoverers of the Nine fm^U Stars, under 
the 
