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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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Sect. 20
A3LFONOMTA.
Venus respectu Terrae x tam cirra Solem in a, quam ultra
cum in b verlari possir. Intra orbitam Veneris a b circinetue
orbis Mercurii d. Orbita POrrO Martis e f _ Terram X
_ Solem c includat, iea quidem, ut Xe distantia proxi-
ma Marris a Tellure sic paulo major, quam X a distancia
minima Veneris; cum parallaxis urriusque Planera Telluri
proximi (ic Dene eadem, _x Marris quidem minuscula. Tum
radio ce descriptus circulus e f erir vera orbita Mariis, du-
plici argumento; primum quod hoc modo Sol s OcCuDeE
centrum orbitx Marris vel quali, ut phaenomena deinceps
exponenda postulane; deinde, quod sic distancia maxima
Marris Xf ad minimam Zc obcineat rarionem quincuplam,
ut ratio diamerri apparentis maximae ad minimam exigic.
Circumjiciarinr cenique orbira Jovis eh, cujus radins c8