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... astronomer this feebleness of the human intellect , and no one is more conscious of the limitations of the logical ... astronomers , refusing to accept mere hypotheses as true , have founded upon these discoveries a science as exact in ...
... astronomer this feebleness of the human intellect , and no one is more conscious of the limitations of the logical ... astronomers , refusing to accept mere hypotheses as true , have founded upon these discoveries a science as exact in ...
Page ix
... astronomers of to - day cannot be included among the records of the History of Astronomy . The writer regrets the necessity that thus arises of leaving without mention the names of many who are now making history in astronomical work ...
... astronomers of to - day cannot be included among the records of the History of Astronomy . The writer regrets the necessity that thus arises of leaving without mention the names of many who are now making history in astronomical work ...
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... 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 , of monarchs and mobs , we have ...
... 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 , of monarchs and mobs , we have ...
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... astronomers did ) as a circular plane , surrounded and bounded by the heaven , which was a solid vault , or hemisphere , with its concavity turned downwards . The stars seemed to be fixed on this vault ; the moon , and later the planets ...
... astronomers did ) as a circular plane , surrounded and bounded by the heaven , which was a solid vault , or hemisphere , with its concavity turned downwards . The stars seemed to be fixed on this vault ; the moon , and later the planets ...
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... astronomers to determine the positions of the solstices and equinoxes , and they reported the names of the stars in the places occupied by the sun at these seasons , and in 2285 B. C. he gave them further orders . If this account be ...
... astronomers to determine the positions of the solstices and equinoxes , and they reported the names of the stars in the places occupied by the sun at these seasons , and in 2285 B. C. he gave them further orders . If this account be ...
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