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tidnefs, vkr Arm 40', with North Latitude 5*^ 
20^andis MeMa trium in Lino Boreo Pifcium (n Baye- 
ro ) Hence it cannot be doubted but that this Star 
which P. Souciet takes to have been once a Star of 
the fitO; Magnitude, was no other than the faid 22^/7 
of Pifces, which in the Britifh Catalogue, fitted to 
the Year 1690, is put down in Aries 22? 29^ f with 
North Latitude 5® 21'. 
How Hipparchus came to reckon this Star to be in 
the Fore- foot of Aries ^ does not at prefent appear ; 
but it is not unlikely that thefe Commentaries of 
his upon Aratus were written feme time before he fet 
about making his Catalogue of the fixt Stars ,* when he 
might change his Opinion, and replace it in the Line 
of the Ft(hesy to which it feems more properly to be- 
long. 
Be that as it will, we will for once, fuppofe with 
P. Souciet, this Star to have been in the beginning of 
the Zodiack, or of the Conflellation of Aries, and 
that at the time of the firfl fixing the Colures, that of 
the Vernal Equinox paft ij Degrees in Confequence 
thereof. Now anno ineunte 1690, this Star being in 
Aries 22® 29' if w’e add thereto 1 5- Degrees, we 
lhall have Taurus 2.^' f for the Point in the Eclip- 
tic that w^as then the beginning of the Zodiack. Now 
37 V Degrees, at Seconds per Annum, gives 2700 
Years j from w'hich deducSting 1690, we lhall have 
1010 Years before- Chrifi. But this Star having 
5® 21' North Latitude, the Colure, when it paft 
over it, interfe( 5 fed the Ecliptick in 2® 20^ lefs Lon- 
gitude, which gives the time 168 Years later, or but 
842 Years before Chrifi. So that ma/gre cette grande 
clecouverte, the new Syflem of Chronology is fo far 
Irom being refuted, that it feems to be very much 
con- 
