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planet’s elongation from the Sun, at the fame time, 
was i° o° 58". Therefore, the longitude of Venus, 
and alfo of the node, was in n 13 0 58' y"~. The 
angle at the Sun, or the difference of the longitude 
of the planet and the Earth, as feen from the Sun, 
was o° 24/ 15". Therefore, the longitude of the 
defcending node of Venus, as feen from the Sun, 
was in ? 14 0 34/ 50". 
The latitude of Venus, as feen from the Earth, 
at the time of the conjunction, was o° 9' 27 "4.5 by 
folving a triangle of which, the computed diftances 
of the Earth and Venus from the Sun conftitute two 
fides, the angle at the Sun, or the planet’s helio- 
centric latitude, viz. o° 3' 46", will be determined. 
With this heliocentric latitude, and the calculated 
place of the Sun at the time of the conjunction, 
and the longitude of the node, as before laid down, 
from two fides of a fpheric right-angled triangle, an 
angle may be computed, which will exprefs the in- 
clination of the planet’s orbit with the ecliptic. The 
place of the Sun, at the time of the conjunction, was 
in n 15 0 36' 10". The difference of the heliocentric 
longitude of the earth, and the node, was V 1' 20". 
Therefore the angle of the inclination of the orbit 
of Venus with the ecliptic is 3 0 30' 49". 
N. B. The feveral numbers contained in this 
paper, are taken from the correCt numbers written 
in the margin of the printed memoir, with the au- 
thor’s own hand, and which feem to be the refult of 
his lateft calculations. And though his observations 
were made with great care, and faithfully calculated, 
yet the refults will not be found fo accurate, as could 
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