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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. 3
AS YRONOMIa
perigex ad mediam Solis a Tellure dictantiam circitex UE 2 Z
ad 82. Ergo si apud Solem Venus ConAIerCE, APPATENeL
ejus diameter dunTaYAF seC. 2T. TerT. 46. Onde constac
esle diamerrum Veneris ad Solis diamerrum ut sec. 2L. CerF.
46. ad min. 30. Pec. 30. hoc eAt uc 1 ad 84.
At Marris diametrum cerris proximi non excedere Pec. 30.
deprehendi, etsi obserratione non cam exacta quam qua ir
Sacurro, Tore _e Venere usus sum, quippe cujus rationen
novissimo Marris ad Tellurem accessu nondum inveneram.
Unde quum distancia Marcis minima sic ad medioerem Solis
ut 25 ad 4F; colligirur rario diaruerri Marris ad diamerrum
Solis ea Circitex GuX Y ad 166. Mars itaque duplo minor
Venere secundum diamerruim hac rarione efCitur. AIque
adeo manifeltum est in Planeris non ubique eum servari
ordinem, ut qui remoriores à Sole sunt, iidem quoque ma-
tori line mole: nam ex Povis Sphaera Sacurno line annulo
major invenca est. Duo sic uc minus liquido de Terrae ac
CxcerOS Planeros proporrione restimario iniri possir. Nar
Si pro rarione ordinis magnirudines esene atrributa, ut Sa-
curnus, Tore major esser, Tupicer Marre; hic Venere, hac
Mercurio; inde, quidem pere cerro colligereliceret, Tel-
luris maonitudinem esse inter Marrem, Veneremque mediam.
Cum vero in aliqnibus concrarium deprehendatur, non xque
quid sequendum liE appaTeE. Veruntamen ue quarenus tere
Porest rocins systematis concinnicas observetur, id nunc quo
que maximé consentaneum videtur, ue Cicur loco media
Cerra estinter Marrem _ Venerem, ita quoque SiE aGNI
cudine. Marris diamerrum dixtimus diariceri Solis esle 265:
eneris vero diametrum 8 2. Lurer ueramque mediam isitur
perrae diamerrum ponendo, Eer ea =E F diamerri Solis. Hujus
autem = 3 diametro Sacurni XqualeS rCDCrEX TUINE; ergOS=
urni diamerer Telluris diamerrum continebie quindecies,
diarieter vero annuli sarurnii eandem Telluris diamerrum
circirer rrigelies ex quater. Unde eximia horum corporum
magrieudo coonoseirur; quae sane omnem ab aliis hactenus
radiram Facile exuperat.
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