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... ASTROLOGY PAGE vii 1 2. 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 ...
... ASTROLOGY PAGE vii 1 2. 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 ...
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... astro- nomical discovery , and , by recognising the different points of view of the different ages , to give due credit even to the ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on ...
... astro- nomical discovery , and , by recognising the different points of view of the different ages , to give due credit even to the ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on ...
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... the daily and annual alternations of light and darkness and of heat and cold , as much as to the irregular changes of weather , attacks of disease , and the fortune of I Book THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY.
... the daily and annual alternations of light and darkness and of heat and cold , as much as to the irregular changes of weather , attacks of disease , and the fortune of I Book THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD PRIMITIVE ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY.
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... ( astrology ) , we owe to the old astronomer and astrologer alike the deepest gratitude for their diligence in recording astro- nomical events . For , out of the scanty records which have survived the destructive acts of fire and flood ...
... ( astrology ) , we owe to the old astronomer and astrologer alike the deepest gratitude for their diligence in recording astro- nomical events . For , out of the scanty records which have survived the destructive acts of fire and flood ...
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