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... ASTROLOGY 2. ANCIENT ASTRONOMY - CHINESE AND CHALDEANS 3. ANCIENT Greek AstronoMY - - 4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE KEPLER 6 ...
... ASTROLOGY 2. ANCIENT ASTRONOMY - CHINESE AND CHALDEANS 3. ANCIENT Greek AstronoMY - - 4. THE REIGN OF EPICYCLES FROM PTOLEMY TO COPERNICUS Book II . THE DYNAMICAL PERIOD 5. DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE KEPLER 6 ...
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... astro- nomical discovery , and , by recognising the different points of view of the different ages , to give due credit even to the ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on 66 ...
... astro- nomical discovery , and , by recognising the different points of view of the different ages , to give due credit even to the ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on 66 ...
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... the necessity that thus arises of leaving without mention the names of many who are now making history in astronomical work . August 1st , 1909 . G. F. Book I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 1. Primitive Astronomy and Astrology PREFACE ix.
... the necessity that thus arises of leaving without mention the names of many who are now making history in astronomical work . August 1st , 1909 . G. F. Book I. THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 1. Primitive Astronomy and Astrology PREFACE ix.
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... the 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.
... the 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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