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... PTOLEMY TO - COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 ...
... PTOLEMY TO - COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 ...
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... Ptolemy a little later , were able to use the observations of Chaldæan astrologers , as well as those of Alexandrian astro- nomers , and to make some discoveries which have helped the progress of astronomy in all ages . So , also , Mr ...
... Ptolemy a little later , were able to use the observations of Chaldæan astrologers , as well as those of Alexandrian astro- nomers , and to make some discoveries which have helped the progress of astronomy in all ages . So , also , Mr ...
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... gods in mundane affairs . Ptolemy ( about 130 A.D. ) made use of Babylonian eclipses in the eighth century B.C. for improving his solar and lunar tables . Fragments of a library at Agade have been preserved at THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD II.
... gods in mundane affairs . Ptolemy ( about 130 A.D. ) made use of Babylonian eclipses in the eighth century B.C. for improving his solar and lunar tables . Fragments of a library at Agade have been preserved at THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD II.
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... Ptolemy , in the Almagest ( Suntaxis ) , says it occurred in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the night of the seven- teenth and eighteenth of the Egyptian month Phamenoth . Pingré and Oppolzer fix the date July 16th , 533 B.C. Thus ...
... Ptolemy , in the Almagest ( Suntaxis ) , says it occurred in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the night of the seven- teenth and eighteenth of the Egyptian month Phamenoth . Pingré and Oppolzer fix the date July 16th , 533 B.C. Thus ...
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... Ptolemy ( 130 A.D. ) wrote the Suntaxis , or Almagest , which includes a cyclopædia of astronomy , containing a summary of knowledge at that date . We have no evidence beyond his own statement that he was a practical observer . He ...
... Ptolemy ( 130 A.D. ) wrote the Suntaxis , or Almagest , which includes a cyclopædia of astronomy , containing a summary of knowledge at that date . We have no evidence beyond his own statement that he was a practical observer . He ...
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