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found to be 72 /r .2. Add to this 3 ".7, the proper 
aberration of Venus at the time of a tranfit, removing 
it more towards E, and the whole vifible diftance of 
Venus from the Sun’s center at the calculated moment 
of a conjunction, will be 7‘) // .9 > over which it will 
move in 1 9 minutes of time. And this, confequently, 
will be the retardation of the phafes of a tranfit of 
Venus occafioned by aberration, on the fuppofition, 
that in calculating, the Sun’s apparent, and not his true 
place is taken. 
I believe thefe obfervations have not been attended 
to by aftronomers j and therefore I am the more 
defirous of communicating them to you. 
I am, 
Dear Sir, 
with much refpeCt, 
your obliged humble fervant, 
Richard Price. 
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