2,34 Afr. costard’s Tranflation of 
by the fame rule, ^ (36) would very eafily be taken 
for ^ (16); and (4) the digits eclipfed for v which is 8 
in the other form of notation, or ^ in this. 
In the manufcript it is faid, that the Sun’s altitude at 
the end, by obfervation, was a little more than 3 3 (gJ) de- 
grees; but this would, in a manufcript ill writen, eafily 
be miftaken for<J (35) or j (36). 
As to the words, tranllated by Profeflor schultens 
for Mr. grischow, “ accidit hoc in piano circuli ejus 
“ minus quam 7 digiti,” I am apt to fufpeft they are 
nothing more than fome marginal reading crept into the 
text; that is, fomebody feeing the digits eclipfed here 
made 8 (^), added, as the Arabic will very well bear, 
u imo minus quam j (7) or v ( 7 ),” as in the other form 
of notation that figure is fometimes made. The writer 
of this manufcript, whoever he was, was certainly ac- 
quainted with both forms of notation, as he hath made 
ufe of both. 
This interpretation is at leaf; plaufible, and clears 
up a fentence which greatly perplexed both Mr. gris- 
chow and Dr. bevis, and feemed to them quite unin- 
telligible. 
The account given by curtius of the fecond eclipfe, 
which was a folar one, is this : 
5 
Anno 
