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... researches and untested hypotheses of many well- known 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 ...
... researches and untested hypotheses of many well- known 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 ...
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... information about the Chinese we 1 R. A. S. Monthly Notices , vol . x . , p . 65 . 2 R. S. E. Proc . , vol . x . , 1880 . rely upon the researches of travellers and missionaries in comparatively THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 5.
... information about the Chinese we 1 R. A. S. Monthly Notices , vol . x . , p . 65 . 2 R. S. E. Proc . , vol . x . , 1880 . rely upon the researches of travellers and missionaries in comparatively THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 5.
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George Forbes. rely upon the researches of travellers and missionaries in comparatively recent times . The testimony of the Greek writers has fortunately been confirmed , and we now have in addition a mass of facts translated from the ...
George Forbes. rely upon the researches of travellers and missionaries in comparatively recent times . The testimony of the Greek writers has fortunately been confirmed , and we now have in addition a mass of facts translated from the ...
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... researches of later years make us more ready to grant that in science as in art the Greeks only developed what they derived from the Egyptians , Baby- lonians , and Assyrians . The Greek historians said as much , in fact ; and modern ...
... researches of later years make us more ready to grant that in science as in art the Greeks only developed what they derived from the Egyptians , Baby- lonians , and Assyrians . The Greek historians said as much , in fact ; and modern ...
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... research of endowment . " Before taking leave of Kepler , who was by no means a man of one idea , it ought to be here recorded that he was the first to suggest that a telescope made with both lenses convex ( not a Galilean telescope ) ...
... research of endowment . " Before taking leave of Kepler , who was by no means a man of one idea , it ought to be here recorded that he was the first to suggest that a telescope made with both lenses convex ( not a Galilean telescope ) ...
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