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feconds in excefs from the computed place. The 
place of Venus was computed from Dr. Halley’s 
tables, only adding 31" to' the mean motion, and 
i' 45" to the place of the node ; by which cor- 
rections, they had been found to agree better with 
obfervations made near the inferior conjunction in 
1 753 * . . 
According to thefe numbers, the ecliptic con- 
junction of the fun and Venus was June 5, 1761, 
N. S. at 17 11 5V 20", mean time, at Greenwich; 
and the place of the fun and Venus 2 f 15 0 36' 33" ; 
and the geocentric latitude of Venus fouth 9' 44 ' ' .9. 
The places of the fun and Venus being computed 
for three hours before, and three hours after the 
ecliptic conjunction, ,the horary motion of the fun 
is 2' 2 3". 45 ; of Venus retrograde 1' 33 // .68 : the 
horary motion of Venus from the fun, therefore, 
3' 57 // . 13, retrograde. The horary motion of Venus 
in latitude is fouth 3 5". 46. The angle of the vi- 
fible way with the ecliptic 8° 30' 10"; the horary 
motion in that way 3' 59 // *77* The light afcenfion 
of the fun, fuppofing the apparent obliquity of the 
ecliptic 23 0 28' 18", was then 74 0 22' 19".! and 
the horary motion of the fun in right afcenfion was 
2' 34 "- 5 J- The declination of the fun was then 
22° 41' 35V9 j the horary motion in declination was 
I 5 // *33 northwards. The angle formed by the axis 
of the ecliptic, and the axis of the equator, was 
6° 9 ' 34", decreafing hourly one minute. 
The right afcenfion of Venus, at the ecliptic con- 
junction, was 74 0 23' i’~j" .2. ; and the horary motion 
of Venus in right afcenfion 1' 75 retrograde. 
The horary motion of Venus from the fun in right 
afcenfion. 
