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 but as to Sir Isaac's problem proposed, whether it be more consentaneous to the nature & the glory of the deity, that he should create new worlds infinitely, in succession: or have done it all in the hexaemeron, we may leave it to be solv'd when we are in his present scituation.

I shall only propose another problem, which tho' numbers can scarce reach the solution, yet they may possibly give us some little idea of the matter. the apparent bredth of the galaxy is generally about 23 degrees; sometime it is nearly double. about 21½ equal to our obliquity of the ecliptic on Mr Senex's planispheres. quære supposing my hypothesis to be fact how far distant is it? I try'd it after a rude the bredth of the angle, which the galaxy makes, shows its inconceivable distance, in this view: & that beyond all number. & that to all eternity, manner & found the interval double the diameter of the whole view of the fixt stars which we behold. thus as in pa. 57