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XXXIII. An Account of the Eclipfe pre- 
dicted hy Thales; by the Rev. William 
Stukeley, M. ZX 
Read May 3 , T TT THILST I lived in Lincoln Hi ire, I 
J 7 S 3 - yV was viftted by Mr. Edmund Wea- 
ver, who was a very uncommon genius ; particularly 
he had made himfelf a great mailer of aftronomy, and 
was fcarcely to be accounted the fecond in the king- 
dom. He compofed complete tables of the celeftial 
motions, which he was very much folicited to pub- 
lifh ; but the world waited for Dr. Halley’s. 
Thefe tables were fhewn to Dr. Halley : we may 
have a notion of their value from what the dobtor 
faid thereupon, that he fufpebted, Mr. Weaver had 
feen his tables. He was well known to, and much 
efteemed, by Mr. Martin Folkes. He taught himfelf 
writing, arithmetic, algebra, fome fublime parts of 
the mathematics, the whole art and fcience of aftro- 
nomy j as his annual publications fufficiently evince. 
He was an inftance of great merit in obfcurity : he 
died in a little houfe of his own, foon after I re- 
moved to London, Dec. 27, 1748. and was buried 
at Cathorp near Grantham. 
Thus much I thought proper to commemorate of 
this worthy perfon. An intimacy grew up between 
him and myfelf during that twenty years I lived in 
the country , nor was it unfruitful ; for we often 
agreeably entertained ourfelves in calculations of 
aftronomy, with a view to antient hiftory. One of 
them I here produce before the Society, done many 
years 
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