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# Title: [Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica] Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 166)
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PRINOTPIA MATHEMATIOA.
ratione differentiarum, het milliarium 3153. Nam cardicas Pen- LIVEn
duli sub A quacore defectum gravitatis arguie; de quo lerior est Prario
materia co major esse debet alciendo eius, ut pondere TuO mate-
riam (ub Polis in aequilibrio suctincat.
Hlinc figura umbrae Terrae per Rcliples Lunx determinanda, non
erit omnino circularis, sed diameter ejus ab oriente in occidentem
ducta major erit quam diameter ejus ab austro in borcam duetan
excestu 55 circiter. Ft parallaxis maxima Lunae in Congitudi.
nem paulo major erit quam ejus parallaxis maxima in Lacicudi-
nem. AC Terrae Cemidiameter maxima erit pedum P’arisientium
20767630, minima pedum 19609820 e mediocris pedum 19688725
quamproxime.
Cum gradus unus mensurante Picarto Eic hexapedarum 57060.
menturante vero C’assino sic hexapedarum 57292: Tuspicantur ali-
qui oradum unumquemque, persendo per Callias austrum versus
majorem ense gradu praecedenre hexapedis plus minus 72, leu
parce octingentelima gradus unius; exittente Terra Sphaeroide ob
lonsa cujus partes ad polos une alcissimx. Quo POMITO, COrDOTL
omnia ad polos lerrae leviora torene quam ad A. quatorem, et
alcicudo Terrxe ad polos superaret alcirudinem ejus ad aequatorem
milliaribus Fere 95, et pendula ilochrona lonsiora Forent ad A-
quatorem quem in Oblerracorio Regio Parisiensi excertu lemistis
disici circiter; uc conterenei proportioncs hic polaS Cum PTO-
portionibus in Tabula praecedente posiris, Facile constabit. Sed
ee dimerer umbrae Terrxe juae ab austro in boream ducitur, ma-
jor foret quam diameter ejus quae ab oriente in occidentem duci
tur, excestu 2. 46, scu parre duodecima diameeri Lunae. Oui-
bus omnibus FxperienTIA CONETAEIREUT. C’erte Cassinus, definiendo
gradum unum esse hexapedarum 57292, medium inter mensuras
Cuas omnes, ex hypochesi de requalitare graduum aNumPHIE. RE
quamvis Picartus in Galliae limite boreali invenie gradum paulo
minorem esfe, tamen Norrvoodus nocter in regionibus magis bore-
alibus, menturando majus interrallum, invenis gradum paulo majo.
rem esse quam Cassinus invenerat. EF C assinus ip se mensuram Picartis
ob parricatem incerralli mensuratis non latis certam e exactam esse
judicarie ubi mensuram gradus unius per interrallum lonse majus
detinire ageressus est. Difterentiae rero inter menturas Cassini, Pi-
cartis ee Norreoodi lunc prove insensibiles, et ab insensibilibus ob.
serrationum erroribus Facile Oriri POTUCTC, UE AuTationeM aXIS
TErrR PraTCrCA.
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