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It Was 1 owing; to this Deviation. it fecnis, that 
the Chine fe are faid to have loft the Method taught 
by- the Ancients, and particularly the Emperor Tao, 
of calculating the -Places of the j TPlanets, and the 
fixed ' Stalls (/). Jttifay-Withi good ;; Ke^fon be queffi 
tibned- whether T-Kep -really had any Methods of cal- 
culating their Places at all : For to what Purpofe* 
could iuch Calculations ferve, when their Catalogues 
of Stars, many Centuries later, are acknowlegcd to - 
have contained' nothing ' more tfeh'bafp "KnrAe'L 
Mt h but r RdftPiSdes\ LMg ft tides , -Right ■ l iWc¥r^fops 9 r 
e^^DeeUiwt^nsf > Such their ^ Cafai%hes^ \vefe x if 
they 'deferve that Nanie, that were made under the 5 
Race of Emperors called Sought), or between^®; 
591- and'620 ; and -it will .be' ‘difficult; to prove they 
-thing ei&f befbfh the 'Je-fnits- dhtroduced' 
thei^e TjffiPBtdfayi- or ' other ’ Eprogem. ones!, ' 'As' 
to «t& * Rl£nets, ho\fr -little they were 
able id compute them will appear from hence, that . 
the f ut m oft that Lit on- bin and Lo-hia*bong, in the 
Yter iSdfor cCkrtft 66 7 pretended to,; was to calcu-- 
late 'a- -jJikiii redfangfeef Triangle '(u ) . 1 In •what man-' 
her fh£y-did this is diet -fa-id: ; Bui: : it would be well, : 
if the learned Fathers would make it appear that the 
ChfrhefFh ad, in- much later Times, anything like a' 
Table of hatthalffines and Tangents, A iinall Skill 
ih : Jxqhfffte to apprehend from Hence 
hbW buhgling :i fheif Aftfonomy ; -miift ; havt been y ail'd 
if fo, mueh more that of the -Ages' preceding them! 
v. And 
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