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e Reader is desired, to insert in Numb. 47, p. 951. sect. 10. after these words, Why it goes too fast, this Note (as it may happen, when by same accident the Cheeks retaine not their proper figures.) And now if it shall be said, that upon any foulness the Watch will goe faster by reason of the shorter Vibrations of the Pendulum, it is to be considered, That this is only true when the Watches have no Cheeks, but when they have them (as in those hitherto used) 'tis not so.

2. If it should be demanded, Why in the same Tract use hath not been made of Tycho's Æquation of Time, nor of that of Bullialdus, ''but one is given different from both? The Answer it, That the Table, there publisht, is the Difference of the Right Ascension of the Sun at Noon from the Mean motion, accounting from th 1st of February; which must be the true Æquation; unless the Velocity of the Earth's Motion about her own Axis be not constantly the same.''

Numb. 47. p. 945. in the 2d columne blot out diff. before 6. 5. 1. and put it before the 3''d rank of members above it, viz. before'' 11. 49. 56.

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