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Heavens, and perfectly well inftrufted in Agronomical 
Matters. He in ail Appendix to his Epbemerides for the 
Year 1688, gives us this remarkable Relation in the follow- 
ing Words. 
Die 9 Jul. ft. vet. Hon \ - matutina, Glottis ardcns cauda 
prad.it us in 8 ~Gr. dquarii cr 4 Gr. Sept, apparuit , qtti per ferhi- 
quadrant.m Flora immotus perflitit, cujus diameter ( emidiametrum 
Luna circtter aquabat. Primo lux tanta ent, ut ejus ope fine 
candelis lege re pot w (fern us : po/lea pedetertim in loco Jho evanefce- 
bat. Phanomenon iftud diclo tempore multis aliis in locis par iter 
vifum e(l, prafertim Schlaizii, opptdo undecim milliaribus Germa- 
nic is abbinc (/. e. a Lipfift) verfus Meridiem dijhwte, alt it udine 
circtter 60 Gr. ab Horizonte meridiano. 
At the time of this Appearance the Sun was in 16 ~ Gr. of 
and by the given Place of the Meteor, ’tis plain, it was 
feen about \ of an Hour paft the Meridian, or in S. bj W. and 
by its Declination it could not be above 24 Degrees high at 
Leipftc , though the fame, at Schlaize was about 60 Gr. high : 
The Angle therefore at the Meteor was about 36 Gr. Whence 
by an eafy calculus it will be found, that the fame was not 
lefs than 1 6 German Miles diftant in a right Line from 
Leipficky and above 6 - fuch Miles perpendicular above the 
Horizon, that is at leaft 30 Englilh Miles high in the Air. 
And though theObferver fays of it, immotus perflitit per femi - 
qnadrantem bora ; *tis not to be underftood that it kept its 
Place like a Fixt Star, all the time of its Appearance ; but 
that it had no very remarkable progreftive Motion. For 
himfclf has at the End of the laid Epbemerides given a Fi- 
gure of it, which he has marked Fig • D. whereby it appears 
that it darted downwards obliquely to the Right-Hand, and 
where it ended, left two Globules or Nodes, not vifible but 
by an Optick Tube. 
The fame Mr. Gottfried Kirch in the beginning of a German 
Treatife of his, concerning the great Comet which appeared 
in the Year 1680, intituled BtlDt 
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