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cc erat 20 gradas fcorpionis, et latitudo * 26 gradus 
cf feptentrionalis : Mars autem tunc erat in 20 gradu 
u fcorpionis diredfcus exeuns, et fic fere conjundti 
u erant Mars et cometa accipiendo ioca ipforum per 
circulum tranfeuntem per polos zodiaci. — Verum 
ic et fexta die Odtobris, fcilicet in fefto Sandtae Fidis 
u pod: occafum foiis eadcm hora inveni quod longi- 
“ tudo ejus erat primus gradus fagittarii, et latitudo 
<c ejus 10 gradus feptentrionalis. Comets latitudo 
“ ecliptica circa principium apparitionis fuas fuit 10 
u gradus et amplius feptentrionalis. — Apparebat co- 
<c meta moveri a feptentrione in meridiem per oriens, 
<c ita quod ejus longitudo orientalis continue videba- 
“ tur augeri, et ejus latitudo feptentrionalis continue 
<c videbatur diminui. — In principio apparitionis fuas 
“ coma protendebatur ad feptentrionem ; etpoftmo- 
“ turn fucceftive movebatur per orientem ad meridiem 
“ verfus ftellam qiue dicitur altayr hoc eft vultur 
<c volans.” 
Though this account is too imperfedt for us to at- 
tempt determining the orbit therefrom, it may not- 
withftanding help us to know the fame comet again, 
if any fhould hereafter appear whofe orbit will agree 
with this relation ; which I believe none of thofe al- 
ready computed will do. 
The other place I hinted at as worthy of notice, 
is this fhort pall age in a treadle De fignijicatione co- 
met arum : 
“ Et 
* 1 his figure (2) is a different writing from the reft of the ma- 
nufcript, and has manifeftly been alter’d lince it was firft written ; it 
teems to have been 16 0 at the firft, which I think the truer reading. 
