C 4^5 ) 
An Extraft of a Letter to the Publiflier from a Sp^^ 
nip Profeffbur of the Machematicks, propofing a 
New place for the firft Meridian^ and pretending 
to evince the Equality of all Natural daies, as 
alfo to (hew a way of knowing the True place of 
the Moon. 
CUm tetu4 Orbis , Clarifftwe Vir ^ SereniJJifni Magnae Bri- 
tannia? Regis ImiAtijiimum tnptutum KegU Societatk 
maximi faciat ^ potejl illnd antiquum revocare ^ Regnuni iflud 
foelix, ubi Rex philofopbatur. Jam indies utilttates ab 
hoc dimanantes abmde dignofcuntur y ^ liter Ati ex omniius 
xertA locis ^ tanti Mecxnatis aufpiciis ^ certatim Novi & 
Certi aliquid conantur in lucem afferre, Etfi ego ingenii met 
tenuitatis non Jim igmrm , tamen mn reticeho memn a tenerii ad 
[cientiits defiderium ^ conatum^ quo impellent e ftr annos undccim 
pracifuas Europe R^giones ^ Regna fum pervagatus: Inter ea, rnihi 
in Aviglu fait per mnumcommoratio'^ qmre Anglic am Humani^ 
tatemexfertus , non dubito, quin^etji ignotns, c^frofe Herculis co- 
lumnas degens {ubi antiquities terror finis putabatur^grati^m ^ be- 
nevolentiam a te^ clari^mo Viro^ Jim impetraturus. Ejl inter homi- 
nes Sccietas illahumma qu<e ncs conjungit^ dr in nobis Jludiorum 
confen[u4j amoris Vinculum coar6ians ; ideonon eji quod diffidam^Te 
mea Votaaliter aceeptumm^ quam foles Exterorum aliorum fcriptis 
benigne refpondere, 
Jitjl omnes ^JVtathematicarum partes ex animo colam , tamen 
Geometria & Aftronomia mihi in pretio maxime funt\ & cum prt- 
mo cccurreret^quii in Globo Terraqueo locu^^ Longitudinis pri^cipio 
efiet aptior y nullam invent inter auifores.quos legebam co^cordi' 
am ; aliis Hefperides Infulae pro primario Meridiano pUcebant ; 
quibufdam Coxviln^nh ; pluribfij Fortunatap infulse 5 non-nullt^ 
Palnm Infula s ^lii^ ^li^ ^tf*^ ^Ha loca, de quibm ingeniofus Scevi- 
ms multA differit 5 quanquam momnibw loci^ hii, ^ pluribf^ aliis, 
K k k longitude 
