Sept. 12. ☿ & 13 ♃^{s} got the Clock removed by Nov. 15 ♀:
89. Dec. 10. first observation of the ☽’s place compared with my lunar
Tables in y^{e} 4th book of calculations, pag. 5.
After this I observed the ☾ and planets frequently w^{th} the New Arch;
examined the lunar observations, commonly the morning after they were
got, and compared them with my Tables, till April, 1692, whereby I saw
the faults of the Tables sometimes were near one-third of a degree.
1694. Sept. 1 ♄ Mr. Newton come to visit me; I shewed him these
Collations drawn up in 3 large Synopses, and on his request gave him
copys of them, he promising me not to impart or communicate them to any
body; this promise I required of him because, as I then told him, I made
use of some places of the fixed Stars which I had derived from
observations made with the Sextant, which were not so exact as those
taken with the Murall Arch; that I had now gotten a good stock of
observations of the fixed * *s, should make a larger and much exacter
Catalogue, that the ☾’s observed places should be derived from the
places of the stars in my New Catalogue, and then I would impart them to
him, which he approved, and by a Letter of his dated confest.
Nevertheless he imparted what he derived from them both to Dr. Gregory
and Mr. H:[246] _contra datam fidem_.
After he had got the 3 Synopses of ☽’s observations to him he desired
more of them, and this caused an Intercourse of letters betwixt us,
wherein I imparted to him about 100 more of y^{e} ☽ places, but finding
this took up much time, and being now entered in my Rectification of the
places of the fixed stars, and very busy in it, I was forced to leave
off my correspondence w^{th} him at that time, having found that his
corrections of my numbers still gave y^{e} Moon’s places 8 or 9 minutes
erroneous, tho’ Dr. G. and Dr. Halley had boasted they would agree
w^{th} in 2´ or 3´--I was ill of the stone very oft and had
[_illegible_] y^{e} head ach till Sept. _when_ freed of it by a violent
fit of y^{e} stone and my usuall medicine--_Deo Laus_.
1695 or 1696. Sir I. N.[247] being made an Officer in the Mint came to
London. I sometimes visited him there or at his own house in Jermin
Street: we continued civil, but he was not so friendly as formerly,
because I could
Mr. H. and Dr. G. assertions concerning his corrections of y^{e}
Horroccian lunar theorys.
1696. A Correspondence begun w^{th} Mr. Bosseley an Apothecary of
Bakewell in Derbyshire and Mr. Luke Leigh a poor Kinsman of Mr. Halleys
of the same clan, and myself. Mr. Bosseley wanted observation for
correcting the planets places I furnished him, and set him on ♄ and ♃.
Mr. Leigh I hired to calculate the places of the fixed Stars from their
Right Ascentions and distances from the Northern Pole determined by
myself.
1696. Dec. 11 I received from him the places of the Stars in the
Constellations of ♊ ♋ and ♌, which whilst he had been doing the same,
were done by my then servant Mr. Hodgson in y^{e} Observatory, so that
I easily found the errors of either and corrected them.
♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ I rec^{d} Jan. 22. 1696
♑ ♒ ♓ -------- Mar. 27. 1697
♈ & ♉ -------- Jan. 16. 1697
Cetus }
Eridanus }
Lupus } Jan. 10 1698-9
Canis Maj. }
Canis Min. }
Navis }
Orion }
Hydra } Aug. 19. 1699
Cratera }
Corvus }
Serpens }
Serpentarius }
Aquila cum Antinoo }
Sagitta } July 25. 1700
Delphinos }
Equuleus }
Pegasus }
Triangulum }
Andromeda }
Perseus }
Auriga }
Coma Beren. } Jan. 5. ♃ 1701
Bootes }
Corona Borea }
Hercules }
Lyra & Cygnus }