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by jfflr. Horrcxes papers^ that heufedatfirft r2^ precise, but 
upon farther experience diininifhed it co 1 1^. 4S'. This is ali the 
real diflference betwixt Hr.Streets print and the Hi>mx/^ Sj ften); 
for which vvhe:her he may juftly call it hts own^and charge nie with 
untruths for denying it, I leave to fuchperfons as are skilled in the 
Lunar Theory to judge. Bur, for uiy own part^I think, he has no 
more title to it, than Monfieur D^r^r had to the invention of the 
Elliptical Hypothepi becaufe he publiflied it and the Rudolphine 
Tables in a better form,reduced cothe Meridian of JParis ; which 
he confeffes in the title page of his Kieheleian Tables ; whofe In- 
genuity had W.Street imitatedjhe had done but juftice to the me- 
mory of the dead,and faved me the trouble of this letter. 
But the main part of his defence is,that his Numbers are not the 
lame with thofe publiflied with the HorroxianXhtory ^zud therefore 
the Sy fteme not the fame. I argue not how illogical the inference 
15 ; but how little ingenious,you may judge, in that he has publifli- 
ed none but the aforementioned courfc ones,fo that for the Excen- 
triclty and Variation we muft believe him gratis : Befides,'tis not at 
all materia] ; for I affirmed nothing concerning his Numbers d^t al !, 
but the form or Contrivance of the Lunar plate, which he has not 
nor can make appear to be any other than the Hcrrextan Syfteme a 
little altered ; but wemay juftly doubt, whether or no amended. . 
Nor is ic pertinent what he fays concerning the working of pro- 
portions in Triangles Mechanically. If he^knew, how to do it, 
before me, no lefs did others much longer before him ; nor am I at 
all beholding to him for this skill : But if he prefers calculations 
before it, to whatpurpofeis this print of the Lunar plate or his 
contention about it ? I might add^ what befides he is beholding to 
JAr.Horrox for, which he has fcarce acknowledged ^but I will for* 
bear,not only to give him no caufe of further contraverfie, but al- 
fo that I may no further trouble you, till I have a better and more 
grateful occafiouv 
Sir, 
I am your Servant 
JohnFlamJlead. 
Lunae 
