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liquity of the ecliptic, or the angle, H P K, = 23 0 32'; 
from whence he finds the angle PKH= 107° 43', 
and the complement of it MKD = 72 0 17'. He 
affumes like wife the latitude of Ardturus, or M D, 
— 31° 3' north ; from whence he finds the arc K M 
= i)° f'; which added to the point K, or W i° 10', 
gives the place of Ardturus, or M, = rfl: 1 2° 1 y'. 
But at the end of the year 1644. the place of Arc- 
turns, he fays, was a 18 0 19'; therefore from the 
time of Hefiod, before affumed, to the end cf the 
year 1644. that ftar had moved through 36° 4'. But 
this it would do, he fays, in 2597 years. From 
whence, therefore, fubtradting 1644, there remains 
the year before Chrift 9 53 . H e concludes, therefore, 
as Longomontanus, we faw, fufpedted before, that 
Hefiod fpeaks of the achronical rifing of this ftar, 
not as it was in his own time, but two centuries be- 
fore. Befides, as the refradtion of Ardturus would 
accelerate his rifing, and the Sun’s refradtion wuuld 
retard his fetting ; and as the time of the folftice was 
then known, at heft, but in a very grofs manner (13)5 
he is of opinion, that this method is not much to be 
(13) Meton and Eu&emon obferved the time of the folftice 
Olymp. LXXXVI. 4. or the year before Chrift 432. and Ariftar- 
chus Samius afterwards ; but Ptolemy fays they were very rudely 
made : And that Hipparchus, before him, was of the fame opinion. 
Ei's/.er 5 <r» 74 ta( tuv rpovav thjji cr&if j'va’J /axgiruf tiveu, ly 
•pr^C( TOOTOK Tctf l/V inilVUV TTOtpa.S'iS Of/.il 1 cLf OhC^ipWipoV ei 
of )y 7 co I 'rzTBu.pyjjj) </‘ojo4 <patvtffd-a.i , TcivT&f y.iv 7roc.$iiT>Hrotyi$cL. 
Syntax, p. 62. But if this was the cafe of obfervations then made, 
what muft we fuppofe it to have been two or three hundred years 
before their time ? 
depended 
