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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, firstby Father Souciet,who in1729 published Observations Astronomical ...
... century. The Asiatic Society of Bengal contributed translations of Brahmin literature. The two principal sources of knowledge about Chinese astronomy were supplied, firstby Father Souciet,who in1729 published Observations Astronomical ...
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... centuries. It maybethat theneglect of their dutiesby Hi andHo, and their punishment, influenced Chinese astronomy;or that the succeeding records have not been availableto later scholars; but thefact remains that—althoughat long ...
... centuries. It maybethat theneglect of their dutiesby Hi andHo, and their punishment, influenced Chinese astronomy;or that the succeeding records have not been availableto later scholars; but thefact remains that—althoughat long ...
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... century historians were accustomed tolook backupon the Greeks, who ledthe world from thefifthto the third century B.C.,as the pioneers ofart,literature, and science.But the excavations and researchesoflater years make us more ...
... century historians were accustomed tolook backupon the Greeks, who ledthe world from thefifthto the third century B.C.,as the pioneers ofart,literature, and science.But the excavations and researchesoflater years make us more ...
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... century B.C. [thepresent reformed Jewish calendardating from thefourth century A.D.], adate a "little morethan acentury afterthegrandfathers and great grandfathers ofthose whose businessis recordedhad fled into Egypt with Jeremiah ...
... century B.C. [thepresent reformed Jewish calendardating from thefourth century A.D.], adate a "little morethan acentury afterthegrandfathers and great grandfathers ofthose whose businessis recordedhad fled into Egypt with Jeremiah ...
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... century.He proposed toastronomers the problemof representing the coursesofthe planets by circular anduniform motions. Systematic observation amongthe Greeks began withthe rise of the Alexandrian school. Aristillusand Timocharis set up ...
... century.He proposed toastronomers the problemof representing the coursesofthe planets by circular anduniform motions. Systematic observation amongthe Greeks began withthe rise of the Alexandrian school. Aristillusand Timocharis set up ...
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