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George Forbes. PREFACE An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the ... tracing the progress of thought and knowledge which it is the object of this History to describe . The progress of ...
George Forbes. PREFACE An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the ... tracing the progress of thought and knowledge which it is the object of this History to describe . The progress of ...
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... trace con- nections which might lead them to say that a comet presaged famine , or an eclipse war . Even if these men were sometimes led to evolve laws of cause and effect which now seem to us absurd , let us be tolerant , and ...
... trace con- nections which might lead them to say that a comet presaged famine , or an eclipse war . Even if these men were sometimes led to evolve laws of cause and effect which now seem to us absurd , let us be tolerant , and ...
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... trace back the period during which Halley's comet has been a member of the solar system , and to identify it in the Chinese observations of comets as far back as 12 B.C. Cowell and Cromellin extended the date to 240 B.C. In the same way ...
... trace back the period during which Halley's comet has been a member of the solar system , and to identify it in the Chinese observations of comets as far back as 12 B.C. Cowell and Cromellin extended the date to 240 B.C. In the same way ...
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... trace can be found . Delambre , in his Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne ( 1817 ) , ridicules the opinion of Bailly , and considers that the progress made by all of these nations is insignificant . It will be well now to give an idea of ...
... trace can be found . Delambre , in his Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne ( 1817 ) , ridicules the opinion of Bailly , and considers that the progress made by all of these nations is insignificant . It will be well now to give an idea of ...
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... tracing the will of the gods in mundane affairs . Ptolemy ( about 130 A.D. ) made use of Babylonian eclipses in the eighth century B.C. for improving his solar and lunar tables . Fragments of a library at Agade have been preserved at ...
... tracing the will of the gods in mundane affairs . Ptolemy ( about 130 A.D. ) made use of Babylonian eclipses in the eighth century B.C. for improving his solar and lunar tables . Fragments of a library at Agade have been preserved at ...
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