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III. Some Conjectures concerning the Pofition 
of the Colure in the ancient Sphere 5 com- 
municated in a Letter from the Re<v d Ebe- 
nezer Latham, M. 2). and V. 2). M. to Dr. 
Mortimer, Seer. R. S. 
SIR , 
Read Nov. 18. "T" Have an Opportunity of tranfmiting 
l74 *' JL to y° u a Draught of the Conftella- 
tion Aries , as it was exa&ly copied by Dr. JVhite 7 
from a Book in the fine Library of your learned 
Uncle Samuel Sanders , Efq; a worthy Member of the 
Royal Society. I do not know whether it may 
not be efteemed of fome Moment towards the deter- 
mining the famous Controverfy with refped to Sir 
Ifaac Newtons Chronology. Dr. Halley obferves*, 
<£ That the Difpute is chiefly. Over what Part of the 
<e Back of Aries the Colure pafied. Sit Ifaac Newton 
“ takes it to be over the Middle of the Conftellation 5 
“ C P. Souciet will have it, that it pafled over the Mid- 
“ die of the Uodecatemorion of Aries , which by 
“ Confequence would make it pafs about Mid-way 
“ between the Rump and Firft of the Tail 5" which 
Situation could never be faid to be over the. Back : 
Whereas, if the Ring in this Cut \_fee in the Tab. 
Fig. 1.] was defigned, as I apprehend, to image the 
* Fhilofophical Tranfaftions , N° 397. 
Colure 
