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... interesting books that was ever written , combining wit , imagination , ingenuity , and certainty . Lastly , it must be noted that , as a History of England cannot deal with the present Parliament , so also the un- finished researches ...
... interesting books that was ever written , combining wit , imagination , ingenuity , and certainty . Lastly , it must be noted that , as a History of England cannot deal with the present Parliament , so also the un- finished researches ...
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... interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Tammuz . " Ptolemy , in the ...
... interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Tammuz . " Ptolemy , in the ...
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... interesting book , De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium . It is only by careful reading of this book that the true position of Copernicus can be realised . He noticed that Nicetas and others had ascribed the apparent diurnal rotation of ...
... interesting book , De Revolutionibus Orbium Celestium . It is only by careful reading of this book that the true position of Copernicus can be realised . He noticed that Nicetas and others had ascribed the apparent diurnal rotation of ...
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... interesting book , Tycho Brahe ) " proofs of the physical truth of his system Copernicus had given none , and could give none , " any more than Pythagoras or Aristarchus . There was nothing so startlingly simple in his system as to lead ...
... interesting book , Tycho Brahe ) " proofs of the physical truth of his system Copernicus had given none , and could give none , " any more than Pythagoras or Aristarchus . There was nothing so startlingly simple in his system as to lead ...
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... of his assistants , and he died in the year 1601 . It is an interesting fact that Tycho Brahe had a firm conviction that mundane events could be predicted by astrology , and that this belief was supported by his THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 37.
... of his assistants , and he died in the year 1601 . It is an interesting fact that Tycho Brahe had a firm conviction that mundane events could be predicted by astrology , and that this belief was supported by his THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 37.
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