Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665)
Royal Society (Great Britain) · London : The Society · leaf 196
[ 166 ] That the before-mention’d folar Eclipfes might be applied to the Examination of the Lunar Motions, I contrived the following Method ; which I think ren- ders Eclipfes of the Sun as ufeful at leaft as thofe of the Moon are in that Bufinefs. £ I … Let ABC in the annexed Figure reprefent half the Earth’s enlightened Disk, AEC a Portion of the Eclip- tic projected thereon FGH the Path of the Moon’s Shadow over the Disk, El, the univcrlal Meridian, a the Situation of the Place at the Beginning of the Eelipfe, /3 its Situation at the End…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-59-35.webp)
