inconclu&longs;ivene&longs;&longs;e at lea&longs;t of the demon&longs;trations of this Author, <lb/>
fir&longs;t propo&longs;ed to con&longs;ideration, and how both he, and all the <lb/>
A&longs;tronomers with whom he contendeth, do agree that the new <lb/>
Star had not any motion of its own, and onely went round with <lb/>
the diurnal motion of the <emph type="italics"/>primum mobile<emph.end type="italics"/>; but di&longs;&longs;ent about the <lb/>
placing of it, the one party putting it in the Cele&longs;tial Region, <lb/>
that is above the Moon, and haply above the fixed Stars, and <lb/>
the other judging it to be neer to the Earth, that is, under the <lb/>
concave of the Lunar Orb. </s><s>And becau&longs;e the &longs;ituation of the new <lb/>
&longs;tar, of which we &longs;peak, was towards the North, and at no very <lb/>
great di&longs;tance from the Pole, &longs;o that to us <emph type="italics"/>Septentrionals,<emph.end type="italics"/> it did <lb/>
never &longs;et, it was an ea&longs;ie matter with A&longs;tronomical in&longs;truments <lb/>
to have taken its &longs;everal meridian altitudes, as well its &longs;malle&longs;t <lb/>
under the Pole, as its greate&longs;t above the &longs;ame; from the compa <lb/>
ring of which altitudes, made in &longs;everal places of the Earth, <lb/>
&longs;ituate at different di&longs;tances from the North, that is, different <lb/>
from one another in relation to polar altitudes, the &longs;tars di&longs;tance <lb/>
might be inferred: For if it was in the Firmament among&longs;t the <lb/>
<arrow.to.target n="marg510"></arrow.to.target> <lb/>
other fixed &longs;tars, its meridian altitudes taken in divers elevations <lb/>
of the pole, ought nece&longs;&longs;arily to differ from each other with the <lb/>
&longs;ame variations that are found among&longs;t tho&longs;e elevations them <lb/>
&longs;elves; that is, for example, if the elevation of the &longs;tar above <lb/>
the horizon was 30 degrees, taken in the place where the polar <lb/>
altitude was <emph type="italics"/>v. </s><s>gr.<emph.end type="italics"/> 45 degrees, the elevation of the &longs;ame &longs;tar <lb/>
ought to have been encrea&longs;ed 4 or 5 degrees in tho&longs;e more Nor <lb/>
thernly places where the pole was higher by the &longs;aid 4 or 5 de <lb/>
grees. </s><s>But if the &longs;tars di&longs;tance from the Earth was but very little, <lb/>
in compari&longs;on of that of the Firmament; its meridian altitudes <lb/>
ought approaching to the North to encrea&longs;e con&longs;iderably more <lb/>
than the polar altitudes; and by that greater encrea&longs;e, that is, <lb/>
by the exce&longs;&longs;e of the encrea&longs;e of the &longs;tars elevation, above the <lb/>
encrea&longs;e of the polar elevation (which is called the difference of <lb/>
Parallaxes) is readily calculated with a cleer and &longs;ure method, <lb/>
the &longs;tars di&longs;tance from the centre of the Earth. </s><s>Now this Author <lb/>
taketh the ob&longs;ervations made by thirteen A&longs;tronomers in &longs;undry <lb/>
elevations of the pole, and conferring a part of them at his plea <lb/>
&longs;ure, he computeth by twelve collations the new &longs;tars height to <lb/>
have been alwayes beneath the Moon; but this he adventures to <lb/>
do in hopes to find &longs;o gro&longs;&longs;e ignorance in all tho&longs;e, into who&longs;e <lb/>
hands his book might come, that to &longs;peak the truth, it hath turn'd <lb/>
my &longs;tomack; and I wait to &longs;ee how tho&longs;e other A&longs;tronomers, and <lb/>
particularly <emph type="italics"/>Kepler,<emph.end type="italics"/> again&longs;t whom this Author principally in <lb/>
veigheth, can contein them&longs;elves in &longs;ilence, for he doth not u&longs;e <lb/>
to hold his tongue on &longs;uch occa&longs;ions; unle&longs;&longs;e he did po&longs;&longs;ibly <lb/>
think the enterprize too much below him. </s><s>Now to give you to