more attempt bringing : them to a ~Calch!us] - that! 
Winds, Thunder, /and Lightning, and' the like. • 
It was bbfefved' befdre, -f1ia£/the ' 
kad many • times- riie ( Ait : <5i: ^he- Gredk;^ T-bdtafi^'dtJt? 
of the Resifters their falfe Caic’ulaiibM * bu$ ^e'fei 
told in the faille Place, That, before they were re- 
policed there, tlicy Were prefented to the Emperor* 
for his Infpediion, Let any one/ that 'k howls the' 
leaft of the defpotic Government/ of the Eaft,; reffef 
on the Probabilityoffhis -5 and whetherthe Yt&hfpfetl 
would not run great Danger of paying for it M/ith 
his Head. ; • 
What hath been already Paid, \viH, I fuppofe, be 
more than ‘ilifficierit to"- fhafe tH6 Gfedif 'O £ Chine ft 
Obfervations. But- what huiff : Av£ TLihfe -of thofe 
very ancient ones, \vbeh we are-fef tKei- r ^H 2 : that; 
from the Time of Tchr&l-tft^ou 3 \ of 4*80 Years before 
Chrijl , the Chinefe themfelves allow Aftroriomy was 
almoft intirely neglected among them and that 
Tfin chi-komg, whoft Reign Begah Yh tPie Wbaf' be : 
fore Chrijl 246, order'd all Books of Hijlbry - arid* 
AJlronomy to be burned (r)? But every drieTvili 
eafily imagine what Deftrudtion of Obfcrvafibns muit 
have been made during a Neglect of thefer Studies 
for 234 Years ; and how little would remain to be 
burned by this aftli-'ctfiyonomcal Prince . 
• -i • ./••••• - r : - .1 ' . e-t - 1 
(?) Obfetvat. y.t frP- Tom- 2.,'p. i. , ‘ 
(r) ttid. 'p. 2, 
