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... 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.
... 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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... light and heat , as a cause . This led to a search for other signs in the heavens . If the appearance of a comet was sometimes noted simul- taneously with the death of a great ruler , or an eclipse with a scourge of plague , these might ...
... light and heat , as a cause . This led to a search for other signs in the heavens . If the appearance of a comet was sometimes noted simul- taneously with the death of a great ruler , or an eclipse with a scourge of plague , these might ...
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... light from the sun , and that this fact explains her phases ; that an eclipse of the moon happens when the earth cuts off the sun's light from her . He supposed the earth to be flat , and to float upon water . He determined the ratio of ...
... light from the sun , and that this fact explains her phases ; that an eclipse of the moon happens when the earth cuts off the sun's light from her . He supposed the earth to be flat , and to float upon water . He determined the ratio of ...
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... light body and a heavy . one fall at the same speed ( except for the resistance of the air ) . Galileo proved this on paper , but to convince the world he had to experiment from the leaning tower of Pisa . At an early age he discovered ...
... light body and a heavy . one fall at the same speed ( except for the resistance of the air ) . Galileo proved this on paper , but to convince the world he had to experiment from the leaning tower of Pisa . At an early age he discovered ...
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... light . There was an exciting hunt , and on December 31st ( the day before its birthday ) De Zach captured the truant , and Piazzi christened it Ceres . The mean distance from the sun was found to be 2.767 , agreeing with the 2.8 given ...
... light . There was an exciting hunt , and on December 31st ( the day before its birthday ) De Zach captured the truant , and Piazzi christened it Ceres . The mean distance from the sun was found to be 2.767 , agreeing with the 2.8 given ...
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