[ + 2 7 ] 
gentlemen above-named ; the ratio of the diameters of 
the earth, and the denfity of the moon being fo af- 
fumed, as to give the maxima of thofe inequalities, 
fuch as the obfervations require : in confequence 
whereof, and from the law of the increafe and decreafe 
(which is rightly determined by theory, tho’ the 
abfolute quantity is not) a true folution, in every other 
circumftance, is obtained. 
The freedom, with which I have expreffed myfelf, 
and the liberty I have here taken, to animadvert 
on the works of men, who, in many places, have 
given inconteftible proofs of ikill and genius, may, 
I fear, fland in need of fome apology. ’Tis pofhble 
I may be thought too peremptory. Indeed, I might 
have delivered my fentiments with more caution and 
addrefs : but, had not I imagined myfelf quite clear 
in what has been advanced, from a multitude of con- 
current reafons, I fliould have thought it too great 
a prefumption to have faid any thing at all here, on 
this, fubjedt. The great regard I have for this So- 
ciety, of which I have the honour to be a member, 
will, I hope, be confidered as the motive for my 
having attempted to rectify fome overfights, that 
have occurred in the works of this learned body.. 
I i i 2 
LIV. 
