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with 9' 56". 3 of vifible fouth latitude, from the fun's 
center ; where the greateft difference is no more than 
2".7 in latitude, we cannot much err from the truth : 
and alfo, from the mean of the fame deductions, the 
true ecliptic conjunction, as feen from the earth’s 
center, will be at iy h 41' 17", with 9' 33". 1 of 
fouth latitude. The middle of the tranlit was, there- 
fore, at f 7 h 20' ; and the neareft approach of the 
centers 9' 2W . 8. The latitude then was 9' 20 ". 6 
fouth; but the longitude of Venus being augmented 
by the aberration of light 3" 7, equivalent to 56" of 
time, by which the true ecliptic conjunction was 
accelerated, the true equated conjunction was at 
17 11 42' 13". The error in latitude, caufed by the 
aberration of light, was i // -4, by which it was di- 
minifhed ; the equated latitude, therefore, was 
9 34 * 5 * 
The equation of time was then 1' 52", to be fub- 
traCted from the apparent time, to give the mean; 
confcquently, the true equated ecliptic conjunction, 
as feen from the earth’s center, was at iy h 40' 21", 
mean time, at Greenwich. The true place of the 
iun, corrected by obfervation, was, at that time, 
2‘ 15 0 36' 12 " ; and, confequently, the heliocentric 
place of Venus was 8 s 15 0 36' 12", with the geo- 
centric latitude 9' 34.". 5. Now, in this cafe, the 
geocentric latitude is to the heliocentric latitude, as 
the diftance of Venus from the fun is to the diftance 
of Venus from the earth ; and therefore, the planet’s 
latitude, as feen from the fun, was 3' 48". 5. If we 
fuppofe the inclination of the orbit of Venus to be 
3 0 23' 20", as determined by Dr. Halley and M. Caf- 
lini, the didance of Venus from the node will be 
V ol. LII, K k V 4/ 20 v ; 
