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... present Parliament , so also the un- finished 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 ...
... present Parliament , so also the un- finished 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 ...
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... present universe , as a rule for pre- dicting the course of events , and as a guide to the choice of a course of action . This idea of cause and effect is the most potent factor in developing the history of the human race , as of the ...
... present universe , as a rule for pre- dicting the course of events , and as a guide to the choice of a course of action . This idea of cause and effect is the most potent factor in developing the history of the human race , as of the ...
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... present knowledge , and to appreciate the originality of thought required to make the first beginnings . With regard to the first point , we are generally dependent upon histories written long after the events . The astronomy of ...
... present knowledge , and to appreciate the originality of thought required to make the first beginnings . With regard to the first point , we are generally dependent upon histories written long after the events . The astronomy of ...
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... 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 - grandfathers of those ...
... 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 - grandfathers of those ...
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... present day . Then again , Knobel reminds us of " the most interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the ...
... present day . Then again , Knobel reminds us of " the most interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the ...
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