cally, by this short assumption, that I have made of all the combinations, and of part of the workings pretermitted by the Author, which I have calculated upon this same paper.
Sagr.You must then from yesterday, till now, which yet is not above eighteen hours, have done nothing but compute, without taking either food or sleep.
Salv.I have refreshed my self both those wayes; but truth is, make these supputations with great brevity; and, if I may speak the truth, I have much admired, that this Author goeth so farre about, and introduceth so many computations no wise necessary to the question in dispute. And for a full knowledge of this, and also to the end it may soon be seen, how that from the observations of the Astronomers, whereof this Author makes use, it is more probably gathered, that the new star might have been above the Moon, and also above all the Planets, yea amongst the fixed stars, and yet higher still than they, I have transcribed upon this paper all the observations set down by the said Authour, which were made by thirteen Astronomers, wherein are noted the Polar altitude, and the altitudes of the star in the meridian, aswell the lesser under the Pole, as the greater and higher, and they are these.
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Tycho. gr. m.
Altitude of the Pole 55 58
Altitude of the Star 84 00 the greatest.
27 57 the least.
And these are, according to the first paper: but according to the second, the greatest is— 27 45
Hainzelius.
gr. m. sec.
Altitude of the Pole 48 22
Altitude of the Star 76 34
76 33 45
76 35
20 09 40
20 09 30
20 09 20
Peucerus
