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'‘Colure in the ancient Sphere , it exa&ly anfwers ////)- 
/wrfe’sDefcription — ?? J'g tw It igw-xoXiotp <pv<ri 
Ty to. von cl kcctcc ttXolt©*- and juftifies the Con- 
ftruction Sir Ifaac put on thofe Words beyond 
Exception. The Sculptures from whence this was 
taken, have the Title of Arattea , five SignaCoelefiia , 
in quihus Aftronomica Speculationes Veterim ad Ar- 
ch ety pa vetuftijfimi Arat£orum C 'afar is Germanici 
Codicis ( 44 ) ob oculos ponuntar a Jacobo de Geyn ex 
Biblioth. Acad. Lugd. Bat. Amftel. 1652. * 
As I have no Opportunity to confult the Original, 
it might give more Weight to the Account, if the 
Connoijfeurs of your learned Society could fupport 
the Engravers Teftimony as to the great Antiquity of 
that. I will only beg Leave to obferve farther, that 
as this Catalogue begins with the 'Draco , which the 
Ancients feem to place at the Head of their Con- 
ftellations ; perhaps it may give fome Light into the 
Time of the Book of Job, as well as into the Senfe 
of that Place. For when he fays. Chap. xxvi. 13. 
By his Spirit he has garnijhed the Heavens', his 
Hand has formed the crooked Serpent ; I fubmit it to 
■the Judgment of the Critics, whether it is not highly 
•probable the Writer muft have lived within that 
Period of Time wherein a Star of that Conftellation 
might pafs for the Polar Star: And then, if the 
Afterifmsare fuppofed to be placed in fome fuch Or- 
der as here, the exprefs Mention that he only makes 
* Hug. Grotii Batavi Syntagma Arateorum: ex ojfic. Tlantin. 
4 ta. See Germanicut’s Interpretation, p. 35. the Figure of the Con- 
ftellation Arier. 
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