about 25 years after the Death of Solomon:  but it is not necessary that the middle of the Constellation of Aries should be exactly in the middle between the two Stars called prima Arietis and ultima Caudae:  and it may be better to fix the Cardinal points by the Stars, through which the Colures passed in the primitive Sphere, according to the description of Eudoxus above recited.  By the Colure of the Equinoxes, I mean a great Circle passing through the Poles of the Equator, and cutting the Ecliptic in the Equinoxes in an Angle of 661/2 degrees, the complement of the Sun’s greatest Declination; and by the Colure of the Solstices I mean a great Circle passing through the same Poles, and cutting the Ecliptic at right Angles in the Solstices:  and by the Primitive Sphere, that which was in use before the motions of the Equinoxes and Solstices were known:  now the Colures passed through the following Stars according to Eudoxus.

In the back of Aries is a Star of the sixth magnitude, marked [nu] by Bayer:  in the end of the year 1689, and beginning of the year 1690, its Longitude was [Taurus]. 9 deg.. 38’. 45”, and North Latitude 6 deg.. 7’. 56”:  and the Colurus AEquinoctiorum drawn though it, according to Eudoxus, cuts the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6 deg.. 58’. 57”.  In the head of Cetus are two Stars of the fourth Magnitude, called [nu] and [xi] by Bayer:  in the end of the year 1689 their Longitudes were [Taurus]. 4 deg.. 3’. 9”. and [Taurus]. 3 deg.. 7’. 37”, and their South Latitudes 9 deg.. 12’. 26”. and 5 deg.. 53’. 7”; and the Colurus AEquinoctiorum passing in the mid way between them, cuts the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6 deg.. 58’. 51”.  In the extreme flexure of Eridanus, rightly delineated, is a Star of the fourth Magnitude, of late referred to the breast of Cetus, and called [rho] by Bayer; it is the only Star in Eridanus through which this Colure can pass; its Longitude, in the end of the year 1689, was [Aries]. 25 deg.. 22’. 10”. and South Latitude 25 deg.. 15’. 50”. and the Colurus AEquinoctiorum passing through it, cuts the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 7 deg.. 12’. 40”.  In the head of Perseus, rightly delineated, is a Star of the fourth Magnitude, called [tau] by Bayer; the Longitude of this Star, in the end of the year 1689, was [Taurus]. 23 deg.. 25’. 30”, and North Latitude 34 deg.. 20’. 12”:  and the Colurus AEquinoctiorum passing through it, cuts the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 6 deg.. 18’. 57”.  In the right hand of Perseus, rightly delineated, is a Star of the fourth Magnitude, called [eta] by Bayer; its Longitude in the end of the year 1689, was [Taurus]. 24 deg.. 25’. 27”, and North Latitude 37 deg.. 26’. 50”:  and the Colurus AEquinoctiorum passing through it cuts the Ecliptic in [Taurus]. 4 deg.. 56’. 40”:  and the fifth part of the summ of the