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... century . The Asiatic Society of Bengal contributed translations of Brahmin literature . The two principal sources of knowledge about Chinese astronomy were supplied , first by Father Souciet , who in 1729 published Observations Astrono ...
... century . The Asiatic Society of Bengal contributed translations of Brahmin literature . The two principal sources of knowledge about Chinese astronomy were supplied , first by Father Souciet , who in 1729 published Observations Astrono ...
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... century B.C. some rule for calculating eclipses was in use . Here , again , patient observation would easily lead to ... centuries . It may be that the neglect of their duties by Hi and Ho , and their punishment , influenced Chinese ...
... century B.C. some rule for calculating eclipses was in use . Here , again , patient observation would easily lead to ... centuries . It may be that the neglect of their duties by Hi and Ho , and their punishment , influenced Chinese ...
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... century historians were accustomed to look back upon the Greeks , who led the world from the fifth to the third century B.C. , as the pioneers of art , literature , and science . But the excavations and researches of later years make us ...
... century historians were accustomed to look back upon the Greeks , who led the world from the fifth to the third century B.C. , as the pioneers of art , literature , and science . But the excavations and researches of later years make us ...
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... century B.C. [ the present reformed Jewish calendar dating from the fourth century A.D. ] , a date a " little more than a century after the grandfathers 1 R. A. S. Monthly Notices , vol . lxviii . , No. 5 , March , 1908 . and great ...
... century B.C. [ the present reformed Jewish calendar dating from the fourth century A.D. ] , a date a " little more than a century after the grandfathers 1 R. A. S. Monthly Notices , vol . lxviii . , No. 5 , March , 1908 . and great ...
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... century claimed Pythagoras as the founder of the system which he , Copernicus , revived . Anaxagoras ( born 499 B.C. ) studied astronomy in Egypt . He explained the return of the sun to the east each morning by its going under the flat ...
... century claimed Pythagoras as the founder of the system which he , Copernicus , revived . Anaxagoras ( born 499 B.C. ) studied astronomy in Egypt . He explained the return of the sun to the east each morning by its going under the flat ...
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