of Planetary conjunctions 201 India by his native assistant, ५gree with hese, and both accod closely with the ouchings of the etrabiblbs, he astrological work attributed to Ptolemy. 2B Perform In like manner the calculation of the conjunction ()!yja) of the planets wil the noon . lhis is all that the beautise ways rospecting the comjunction of the nnon with the ex«or planety of the phenommunion, sometion:8 Bo striking of the oceultation , the litly by the forme". it takes no epecial notice. I'he tcommont no eits : |dlflitiu} khal-verse as somethihnes included in the chapt, to १he ifect , that, in calculating a conjugation, the moon's latitude is to be vekno :e corrected by her prallax in latituld (audgth, }but rejecif it, as ranking t!e chapter oveéull, no :$ being superfluous, sined the nature of the eIA determines the application here of the general rules for purallax presented in the fifth chapter. Of any pnerallax of the planet helps:]v५& nthim is said : of course, to calculate the moon's parallaux by the method already given is, in effect, to attribute to them all a hrri«ont:l paralax of the same Klue with half assigned to the sun, or abot 4. 'The final verse of the chapter is a c१vent against the Buposition that whe 1 • conjunction of two planets is spoken of, anything more is meant than that they ign: to approach one another; whild nevertheless, this apparent proach requires to be treated of , or econd ot ity influence umn human fates . 24. !nto the good and eyi fortre of men if this systern fact art : fl: phncts 1ave on upon their own pablhs, गpproaching oute; another at a distance. 26
