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... ANCIENT Astronomy - CHINESE AND CHALDEANS 7 3. Ancient Greek AstronoMY - - 13 4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES - FROM PTOLEMY TO - COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6 ...
... ANCIENT Astronomy - CHINESE AND CHALDEANS 7 3. Ancient Greek AstronoMY - - 13 4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES - FROM PTOLEMY TO - COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6 ...
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... ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on practical " or on " theo- retical astronomy , " nor a complete " descriptive astronomy , " and still less a book on " speculative astronomy ...
... ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on practical " or on " theo- retical astronomy , " nor a complete " descriptive astronomy , " and still less a book on " speculative astronomy ...
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... ancient Chaldĉans gave to the planetary con- junctions an influence over terrestrial events , let us remember that in our own time people have searched for connection between terrestrial conditions and periods of unusual prevalence of ...
... ancient Chaldĉans gave to the planetary con- junctions an influence over terrestrial events , let us remember that in our own time people have searched for connection between terrestrial conditions and periods of unusual prevalence of ...
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... ancient Greeks for announcing the influence of the moon with as much confidence as it is affirmed in Lord Wolseley's Soldier's Pocket Book . Even if the scientific spirit of observation and deduc- tion ( astronomy ) has sometimes led to ...
... ancient Greeks for announcing the influence of the moon with as much confidence as it is affirmed in Lord Wolseley's Soldier's Pocket Book . Even if the scientific spirit of observation and deduc- tion ( astronomy ) has sometimes led to ...
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... ancients . The historian , wishing to give credit wherever it may be due , is met by two difficulties . Firstly , only a few records of very ancient astronomy are extant , and the authenticity of many of these is open to doubt ...
... ancients . The historian , wishing to give credit wherever it may be due , is met by two difficulties . Firstly , only a few records of very ancient astronomy are extant , and the authenticity of many of these is open to doubt ...
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