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fcribbled on by the Sciolifts 5 fo that it may be hard 
to diftinguifh many times the Text from what may 
be called the Comment? Is not this, in Fad, ac- 
cording to the Learned Fathers own Account ( t) } 
very frequently the Cafe? May not, by this means, 
a Calculation , if it mnft be fo called, be miftook for 
an Obfervation made many hundred Years before ? 
It is confeffed 0 ), that Martini was impofed upon 
in this very manner 5 and it is much to be fufpeded 
that he hath not been the only one. 
You fee, Sir, that I have produced the Jefaits 
own Authority for every thing here offered. I de- 
fignedto have cited their Words at Length, but that 
I found would have fwell’d thefe Papers above the 
Size of a Letter. I am not confcious to myfelf of 
having mifreprefented them; I am fure I have not 
done it wilfully; for I have nothing in my View 
but Truth. I am, 
F- S. The Title of the Work I have here cited, is, 
at length, Obfervations Mathematiques, Aftrono - 
miqiies , 
( t ) Obf. ut fup. Tom. 2. Pref. 
SIR , 
Tour mo(l obedient 
humble Servant , 
G. Coftard 
p. 103. 
(u) Obf. ut fup. Tom. 2. 
