Stella: Martis, etc. Pragæ, 1609, folio Ch. xxvi, page 137.]
For this theorie I am much in love with these particulars;

1° his permutation of the medial to the apparent motions, for
it is more rational that all dimensions as of Eccentricities,
apogacies, etc.. . . should depend rather of the habitude to
the sun, then to the imaginarie circle of orbis annuus.

2° His elliptical iter planetarum. for me thinks it shiews a
Way to the folving of the unknown walks of comets. For ai his
Ellipfis in the Earths motion is more a circle _[here endeth
Dr Zacb's fragment, and here beginneth the continuation from
tie original in the Britith Museum]_ and in Mars is more longe
and in some of the other planets may be longer againe so in
thos commets that are appeard fixed the ellipsis may be neere
a right line.

3. His phansie of ecliptica media or his via regia of the sun,
vnto wch the walke of al the other planets is obliqj more or
lesse; even the ecliptica uera under wch the earth walkes his
yeares journie; by wch he solues handsomelie the mutation of
the starres latitudes. Indeed I am much delighted with his
booke, but he is so tough in rnanie places as I cannot bite
him. I pray write me some instructions in your next, how I may
deale with him to ouermaster him for I am readie to take
paines, te modo jura dantem indigeo, dictatorem exposco. But
in his booke I am much out of loue with thes particulars. I.
First his manie and intolerable atechnies, whence deriue thos
manie and vncertaine assayes of calculation. 2. His finding
fault with Vieta for mending the like things in Ptol: Cop.....