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dined till it came into the perpendicular dire&iori 
MN. From hence it is natural to conclude, 
4. That if V move the fame way, but fwifter, a 
tube to receive the ball mud be reclined backward. 
For the ball would now be carried to the right hand 
farther than in the fecond fuppolitionj and there- 
fore would come to the other fide of the veffel at 
fome point P on 
the right hand of 
N, as if it pro- 
ceeded from fome 
point Q^on the 
left hand of S. 
This laft feems 
to be the cafe of 
the tranfit, by 
fuppofing S to be 
the fun, E the 
earth, and V the 
planet Venus paf- 
fingbetweenthem 
from left to right, 
and with a greater 
velocity than the 
earth (greater, 
nearly as 24: 20). 
And it fhould 
feem that the 
aberration mull 
make Venus ap- 
pear farther to 
the left hand, or L 
to the Eaft from 
Vol. LX. 
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V 
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