greater than any other Days Heat whatsoever, being to that of the Æquinoctial
From the Table and these Corollaries may a general Idea be conceived of the Sum of all the Actions of the Sun in the whole Year, and that part of the Heat that arises simply from the Presence of the Sun be brought to a Geometrical Certainty: And if the like could be performed for Cold; which is something else than the bare Absence of the Sun, as appears by many Instances, we might hope to bring what relates to this part of Meteorology to a perfect Theory.
Concerning the Distance of the Fix'd Stars. By the Honourable Francis Roberts , Esq; S. R. S.
THE Ancient Astronomers, who had no other way of computing the Distances of the Heavenly Bodies, but by their Parallax to the Semi-diameter of the Earth; and being never able to discover any in the fix'd Stars, did from thence rightly enough infer, that their Distance was very great, and much exceeding that of the Planets, but could go no farther otherwise than by uncertain guess.
Since the Pythagorean