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February 3 ^ ^ The fame appeared yet to increafe 5 as alfo Febru- 
ary 27. But after this time l could not fee it, by reafon of the ill 
weather. 
7 he fame Afhonomer did fubjoin the following Extrait of a 
Letter he received from Monfieur Hevelius, March 1 5. 
concerning fuch another Star ^ viz. 
I have watched the New Star in the Neck of the Whale , as often 
as the weather would give me leave, which it hath done but feldom 
this Winter, In January the 3, 4, j, 7, and 13 dayes, it did not 
yet appear. From this time, the S ky was continually overcaft,till 
January 23. on which day, I found a little Star of the Sixth or 
Seventh Magnitude , about the fame place where the faid New Star 
ufes to appear. But it then feemed to me not the genuine New 
Star, but another, to wit , preceding the New 5 whofe Longitude 
hath been defined by me in Mercuries in Sole vifus in Aries, gr. 25, 
43'. 3". and the Latitude gr. 14. 41'. 32". South, Anno 1660. 
Then from January 23, to February 2, it was Cloudy weather 
again ^ but this fecond of February , it appear’d very bright, and 
that ; when the Moon fhone, of thebignefsof that in the Mouth of 
the Whale, or Nodo Lini • from which time I alwayes obferved it 
to grow bigger. March 13. Ididftillfinditextreamlybright,but 
could not by my naked Eye , becaufe of the vivid Crepufcle , 
and the low fite of the Star , accurately determine its Mag- 
nitude. 
I have received ( faith he further') your two Monita ad Afro- 
SeeNxm&.^.of there nomos 5 and the Difeimrfe hath much pleafed me, 
Tranfaftionsj p. 381, you having not much deviated from the Truth* 
38 2.wh e re^an account re {p e $ 0 f the Appearance. Heretofore I had 
Mw/taof m ?buJU- of this, and other New Stars, another Hypothefc 
Adus. _ but I cannot thereby fo accurately divine the Ap- 
pearances, as you will read more largely in its due place. < 
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