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TRANSACTIONS. 
I. Obfervations on the Solar Spots. By 
Alexander Wilfon, M. D. ProfeJJor of 
Pra&ical Afrono?ny in the Univerfity of 
Glafgow. Communicated by the Rev . 
Nevil Malkelyne, Aflronomer Roy ah 
Redde, Apr.z9,x TTHEN the great Copernicus 
177 VV had revived the true fyftem of 
the world, it was obje&ed againft it, that the planet 
Venus ought to be feen with different phafes like 
the moon ; to which he anfwered, that fome time 
or another that very thing would perhaps come to 
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