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# Title: Nicolai Mercatoris Holsati, è Soc. Reg. Institutionum Astronomicarum Libri Duo, De Motu Astrorum Communi & Proprio, Secundum Hypotheses Veterum & Recentiorum præcipuas; Deqve Hypotheseon ex observatis constructione (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 63)
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P R A F ATIO.
verlum quid sectatum fuisse, ue omissis
quibusdam ad insticucum meum minus ta-
cientibus insererem ca, quae magis vide-
bantur ad rem perrinere. Ica doctrina de
quatione remporis in Syltemate Ptole.
maico e Copernicxo, e in hoc praeceto
aequinoctiorum ec phaenomena Primi Mo-
bilis; icem hypocheles Trctonis LunarCS,
e Planetarum ellipricae, ridebantur mitri
digna, qua diligenciis paulo enuclearen-
tur. CSed e ypochelcon ex oblervatis
tabrica, e calculus mocumm ex probatio-
ribus Tabulis (qui Fructus eAt hujus do-
ctrina praecipuus) omicti nullo modo de
buic, i.Paceomulea alia, quorum ne vesti-
sium quidem exeat apud Callendum. In-
cerim tateor, amo canti Niri reltigia pre-
mere non eribuisse, in recensendis nimi-
rum Phanomenis, _ explicandis Eclipscon
causis, aequo aliis, qua rix commodius,
quam ab iplo dicta tuerant, explicare me
Pose pucabam. , Ita Mulerium haud pionie
lequi in explicanda FIypochesi Lunari Iy-
choniana, aliisque nonnullis. Neque rero
Callendus vel Mulerius Primi inVentores
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