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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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ASTRONOMIA.
isti; habearque alcera Foramen exile, per quod racii Solaris
disci illabaneur in cameram oblcuram, ita uE excipiantur
lamina adverta; pingetur in hac species Solis, cujus diameret
circino acuro accipienda est, ex in accurara quadam lcala
mensuranda, derractis parriculis, quas foramen occupato
Tum ex eadem scala mensuretur distantia laminarum, Ila
acquires proportionem, quam distancia Solis à Tellure habet
ad ejusdem diamerrum. Unde porro inferes: VF distantia
Solis ad ejusdem semidiamerrum; ira radius ad FANGENEEM
Temidiamerri apparentis, sive semianguli, sub quo discu
Solis cernitur. Explorara hoc modo semidiametro Solis;
quando conrinsic hujus ccliplis, excipiantur per relescopium
in camera obscura urriusque luminaris species, d qua mars
Lunae discum solis abscindir, accipiantur Tubinde circino
tricuspide eria puncta in circumterencia Lunx. Similiret
accipias quoque rria puncta in circumterentia Solis. Deinde
ubi ternorum iltorum punctorum centra inveneris; poter
comparare diamerrum urriusque Luminaris, _ ex semidia
merro Solis ance noca eriam semidiamerrum apparenten
Lunx concludere.
Tib.
DROBLEMM
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Fecentricitatem es apoceon Lnna invenire.
Umantur tres Eclipses Lunx inera unius anni curriculum
 Doblervata, nocaris accuraré d momentis remporis, 
locis Feliprica, quibus incidebane; crenim posterius per
locum Solis (rum Lunxe e diamerro oppolici) calculo inno
rescit. Deinde ad interralla remporis inter primam de le
cundam, nec non inter securidum sc rerriam eclip lin interjecta,
computa ex tabulis quibulcunque motum e anomalix me
dix, ec apogei Lunae. Ftenim subducto motru apoSCI et
moru vero Lunx (noro ex locis, quos in quaque cclipli rene