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fubdance the fame with this, as far as proportion 
V. a copy of which he foon after tranfmitted to that 
excellent mathematician the late M. Clairaut. 
In March 1763jM.de la Lande, an eminentFrench 
adronomer, being here, Dr. Bevis (hewed him my 
paper ; this occafioned a new article in the Conn, des 
Mouv. Celeji. 1765, p. 177, under the title, Inegalite 
dans les demi-durees des eclipfes des fatellites de ’Jupiter y 
caufee par /’ applatijfement de Jupiter : in which he 
mentions this circumdance in the following words ; 
“ M. le dodteur Bevis me fit voir a Londres, au mois 
t{ de Mars dernier, une folution rigoureufe 6c al- 
“ gebrai'que de ce probleme, qui confide a trouver la 
“ courbe qui refulte de la fedtion de 1’ombre d’un 
<c fpheroi'de a une didance quelconque/* 
In this date it remained ever fince ; for though 
the Dodtor, and fome other gentlemen, to whom I 
(hewed it, frequently urged me to lay it before the 
Royal Society j I always declined it, till I (hould 
have time to make fome farther additions to it. 
A few months fince, M. Bailly, a French gentle- 
man, publifhed at Paris an elaborate treatife upon the 
theory of Jupiter’s fatellites; in which he has been 
pleafed to give the honour of this difcovery intirely 
to M. de la Lande, without the lead mention of Dr. 
Bevis. I then thought it incumbent on me to do 
judice to the Doctor, by immediately finilhing my pa- 
per in the bed manner I was able, and prefenting 
it to the Royal Society. 
I (hall be extremely glad, if this rude efiay (hould 
excite fome more able perfon to treat the fubjecd in 
the manner it deferves ; for though, I believe, my 
folution will not be deficient in point of truth, I am 
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