.. . .. f*)M 
we (hall have his middle Motion at the Time of the 
Obfervation nu° 28' 13*', and, taking his Aphelion 
in / 12 0 49' 49" therefrom, we have his mean 
Anomaly ic s 19® 38' 24", and thereby the Equa- 
tion to be added 12 0 39' 41", and thence the Place 
of Mercury in his Orb m 15 0 7' 54". But the cor- 
red Place of the defending Node 4 s m 14 0 46' 25", 
and therefore Mercury , being 21' 29" pail the Node* 
had 2' 3 6" South Latitude at the Sun • and his Place/ 
reduced to the Ecliptick, was m 15 0 y' 45", that is' 
17' 44"' pad the Conjun&ion of the Sun , which d£ 
miniihed in the Proportion of 5567 to 45-33, or of the 
Diftahce of the Planet from the Earth to his Didance 
from the Sun\ becomes 14' 27" ; and by fo much was 
he pad the Conjun&ion as viewed from the Earth . 
Again, by the fame Proportion, his Geocentrick La- 
titude, at that Time, was 2' f South ; and therefore, 
his apparent Didance from the Sun's Center, was 14' 
37" ; that is, but l' 18" from his wedern Limb ; 
fo that he might well be laid to be, jamjam exiturus. 
But, that Mercury fliould at that Time be fofar nor- 
therly, as Mr. Roemer ' s Words import, was abfolmely 
impodible ; and, 1 am apt to believe, that fo acute an 
Adronomer as Mr. Roemer was, could not himfelfbe 
the Obferver, but fome Perfon lefs acquainted with 
thefe Matters ; which the Words fpetfabatur Mercu- 
rius , indead of Mer curium vidi 5 teem to import. If 
he had then had North Latitude, he mud needs have 
been feeft in the Sun in April 1720, which we are 
allured he was not. 
Ladly, it may not be amifs to advertife, that on 
the lad Day of O Bober 173 6, Mercury will again tra- 
verfe the northern Part of the Sun's Disk, both Ingrefs 
and Egrefs being vifible to all Europe. 
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