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with the prefent one. In the mean time I /hall add, 
that in Ebn Younis’s eclipfe, in the year after Chrifl 
979, the time of the mean oppofition was, by my 
calculation, May 1 4 d 3 11 yo' 30". 
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The fun’s place 
The moon’s place in the ecliptic 
Moon’s latitude north 
Place of her apogee 
Place of her node 
Sun’s mean anomaly 
Place .of his apogee 
Digits eclipfed 8 d 4'. 
1 27 o 
7 2 7 Si 0 
37 42 
4 13 f° 46 
2 5 4 14 
11 1 29 47 
2 2f 29 39 
Thefe numbers are fomething different from thofe, 
which, I think, I gave Dr. Bradley fome time ago. 
For I had made, fome how or other, a fmall mil- 
take in the place of the fun’s apogee, which was 
kindly hinted to me by Mr. M. I have, fince that, 
gone over the whole calculation again, and believe it 
is pretty exadt, and agrees well enough with what 
Ebn Younis relates, that Spatium , quod eclipfatam juit 
de diametro cjus (lunae) fuit amplius quam octo digiti , 
et minus quam novem . And afterwards, Et erat luna t 
in hac eclipji y in propinquo dijiantia fucc media. 
I have been led infenfibly farther than I intended 
at firff, which was only to explain the grounds of 
what I had faid to Mr. Jacklon. But your love to 
the lcience will excufe the trouble I have given you, 
and make any farther apology needlels. I am, dear Sir, 
Oct. 3, 1752- Your very affectionate, &c t . 
G. Coftard# 
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