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tho’ for Argument-fake he is contented to let it 
begin as Sir /faac does, with the aforefaid Star in 
the Ear or Horn ; which Hipparchust in the laft 
and Page, tells us, in his time follow’d the E- 
quinodial Colure the zoth part of an Hour : And 
fuppofing the Star that has difappeared, to have been 
at that time precifely on the* Colure, it muft differ 
but ^5* Minutes of Right Afcenfion therefrom : But 
how he comes to make the difference of Longitude 
40 Minutes no way appears, and is gratis di^um. 
In Page 49 of the faid Edition, Hipparchus^ 
treating of the rifing and Petting of the Conftellations, 
tells us, that that of Aries began to rife with 1 8 l- 
Degrees of Pifces in the Ecliptic, and was wholly ri- 
fen with the i^th Degree of Jries^ whilfl the Zodiack 
pad the Meridian from 23 r Degrees of Sagittary to 
14 Degrees of Capricorn : And again (Page ^^) he 
fays, that the Conffellation of Aries began to fet 
with the zgth Degree of Fifces-, and was wholly fet 
with the 26/^ Degree oi Aries, whilfl: the Zodiack paft 
the Meridian from 29 Degrees of Gemini to 29 De- 
grees of Cancer. He tells us alfo that it was the 
very fame Star that both rofe and fet firfl in that 
Conflellation, calling it 5 gx/ 'TS gjU.XfOeS'iB XOcTof, Page 49 : 
And again, Page ’tis named S \v jolt \[X' 7 r^o&ion Troij-ivy or 
That in the Fore-feet of the Ram. 
This certainly is the Star P. Souciet would place on 
the Equinodfial Colure, and makes it long fince to 
have difappeared ; without enquiring whether the a- 
forefaid Data were not abundantly fufffcient to deter- 
mine its place in the Zodiack at that time 5 and with- 
out regard to the odd uncouth Poflure he muft fuppofe 
the Conflellation of Aries to be in, when he makes 
one or both of the Fore-feet fo near to, and above 
the Horn or Ear. 
Hip- 
