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Rh it to. I could wih indeed that all the World might not be my Judges, but that I might chue my Readers, Men like you, not ignorant in Atronomy and true Philoophy; for with uch I might promie my elf a favourable hearing, and not need to make an Apology for daring to vent any thing new to the World. But becaue I am aware what weak Hands it’s likely to fall into, and what a evere Sentence I May expect from thoe whoe Ignorance or Zeal is too great; it may be worth the while to guard my elf beforehand againt the Aaults of thoe fort of People.

There’s one ort who knowing nothing of Geometry or Mathematicks, will laugh at it as a whimical and ridiculous Undertaking. It’s an incredible Thing to them to talk of meauring the Ditance and Magnitude of the Stars: And for the Motion of the Earth, they count it, if not a fale, at leat a precarious Opinion; and no wonder then if they take what’s built upon uch a lippery dation