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Show N 2 6 e e s ett bt » vt e e etA e crs of the Gods, promulgators of a new La rhe speech Unto theirs malice, an{wered : That the Aftro‘of the Empeo one ke womical Goncernuent had nothing to do with thei d kno Calumniacors. [ 3¢ Royzzl 7ur/gmcizt was Juft and r zoht which laying afide all refpeCt, was confer iz the truth of el them for the furure no hope of \Glory: And hen they could accomplifh nothing by fuch like accufations, returnin unto horrible Calumnies, they were inve&ive againft eur Fathers as the over hrowers of the Republick, the co temn o eforming the Calendar, and Caleulation o the Eclipfes in which b had long fince found then: very nuch miftaken; a ways difcowering the Calculation o aur Fathers to anfwer exallly to theiy predictions Wherefore he commanded the to ceaf e -- ATHAN ASIVS KIRCHE i fro contentions if not, according to the {everity of is Juftice, h would immediately ifli& due punithments upo the unjuft flanderers : Therefore, being as 1t were thunder-ftruck, they d fifted from any farther contra difiion, judging it more fit, foor r fome {pac to decline the dif] pleafure of th Emperour, than by fuch accufations to lof all hope of farther promotion, an to run the hazard of banithment, and the lof of life it felf ookof ranflaced ou the chimeion "aguage rhe Aftrono - Now the Emperour, by nature moft cur ous, refpeéied and favoured our Fathers for the great colle@ion o Books which they made for the reformin h Chinefian Aflronon.]y, which they prefented unto hi . There was an Aftronomi€2l Book of Logarithms adapted unto the Chinefian Accompt,w i Was involved with innumerable difficulties, was al ogeth er infufficient for all manner of Aftronomical Operations; for what they coul not perform in many leave by Addition, Subfiration, and the ot er known kinds of numbers alone litite our Fathers by introducing the European Compu e, com prehended in a few lines srigonomerry They alfo ) publithed a Trigonometry, fo necefla y to the accomplifhment o Aftronomical Conclufions, concerning whi that very da "he Opticks. had not received the leaft glimpf . There followed another work of th Optick mical Calcu in which was defcribed the fitnations of the Star , their magnitude, their diftanc from the Earth, and from o e another, the Do&rine of Parallaxes, of t the Mecha. - accidents and phanomenas, or appearances. Next un o this fucceeded the Mechanicks nicks, or the Ufe and making of Aftronomical Inftrumen s ;5 wich which the Empe O PT P rour being much delighted, they redq plicated his joy by prefenting him with eac Inftrument, as they were newly made in Europ e5 a d he was (o taken therewith that he gave a firict order they fhould be Jaid u his Bed-chamber ; and that he might exact y underftand each, he would be inftructed therein by the Fathers And from that time they obtained not only wh concerned Learning, butalfo the propagatio of the Gofpel of Chrift, accompanied with Revenues neceflary for their own pr vate {upport; moreover the Emperour deputed an hundre I e S- ' ' - [ra thef to know more concerning the m entioned, may have recour(e to the whole if that ever it chance to be Publifhed whic ¥Father Adam Schall hath compiled oncerning the reformation of th inefia Aftronomy, which I have read ji the Manufcript 5 and the curiou Reader. i that it be made publick, fhall wi h a :miration difcover how muc the Iabour;o ' l of Rites or Aftronomical Councel Which Edic&t was confirmed with fo great f rce, that unto this very day no perfo durft fo much as to motjon any thing co trary unto it, and his Authority was fuc that no Ephemerides that was wont very year to be divulged through th Em pire, might now be Publifhed withou j¢ were Compoled or Authorized by h a great penalty being inflited on thof that fhould a& to the contrary- Bu the Perfon that defiret of the Chinefian Aftronomers, who fhoul in the Judgment of Father Adan: Schall in the decifion of all things, as the {upreme Head and Acbiter of the Tribun S |