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... Chinese observations of comets asfar back as 12 B.C. Cowelland Cromellin extended the dateto 240B.C.In thesame way the comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the Chinese records to 617 A.D. [4] The theoretical viewsfounded on Newton's ...
... Chinese observations of comets asfar back as 12 B.C. Cowelland Cromellin extended the dateto 240B.C.In thesame way the comet 1861.i. has been traced back in the Chinese records to 617 A.D. [4] The theoretical viewsfounded on Newton's ...
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... Chinese, Indian, Persian, Tartar, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Greek astronomers. Andwehave not a particleof information about the discoveries, which may havebeen great, byother peoples—bythe Druids, theMexicans, and ...
... Chinese, Indian, Persian, Tartar, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Greek astronomers. Andwehave not a particleof information about the discoveries, which may havebeen great, byother peoples—bythe Druids, theMexicans, and ...
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... CHINESE. AND. CHALDĈANS. The last section must have made clear the difficulties the way of assigning to the ancientnations theirproper place in the development of primitive notions about astronomy. The fact that some alleged observations ...
... CHINESE. AND. CHALDĈANS. The last section must have made clear the difficulties the way of assigning to the ancientnations theirproper place in the development of primitive notions about astronomy. The fact that some alleged observations ...
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... Chinese Empire, translated from TongKienKangMou. Bailly, inhis Astronomie Ancienne (1781),drew,from these andother sources,the conclusion that all weknow of the astronomical learningofthe Chinese, Indians, Chaldĉans, Assyrians, and ...
... Chinese Empire, translated from TongKienKangMou. Bailly, inhis Astronomie Ancienne (1781),drew,from these andother sources,the conclusion that all weknow of the astronomical learningofthe Chinese, Indians, Chaldĉans, Assyrians, and ...
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... Chinese certainly seem to have divided the circle into 365 degrees.To learn the length ofthe year needed only patient observation—a characteristic of the Chinese; but many younger nations got into aterrible mess with their calendar from ...
... Chinese certainly seem to have divided the circle into 365 degrees.To learn the length ofthe year needed only patient observation—a characteristic of the Chinese; but many younger nations got into aterrible mess with their calendar from ...
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