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... heavenlybodies do notmove by chance, norbytheir own will,but by the determinate will and appointmentof the gods. They recorded these movements, but mainlyinthe hope of tracing the will of the gods in mundane affairs.Ptolemy (about 130 ...
... heavenlybodies do notmove by chance, norbytheir own will,but by the determinate will and appointmentof the gods. They recorded these movements, but mainlyinthe hope of tracing the will of the gods in mundane affairs.Ptolemy (about 130 ...
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... heaven; and the sun, moon, and planets to be upon similar vaults or spheres, twentysixrevolving spheres in all, the ... heavenly bodies. Aristotle (384322 B.C.) summedup thestate of astronomical knowledge in histime, andheld theearthto ...
... heaven; and the sun, moon, and planets to be upon similar vaults or spheres, twentysixrevolving spheres in all, the ... heavenly bodies. Aristotle (384322 B.C.) summedup thestate of astronomical knowledge in histime, andheld theearthto ...
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... heavenly bodies were no better than madmen (Xen. Mem, i.1,1115). Plato (born429 B.C.), the pupilof Socrates, the fellow student of Euclid, anda followerof Pythagoras, studied science in histravels in Egyptand elsewhere. He was held in ...
... heavenly bodies were no better than madmen (Xen. Mem, i.1,1115). Plato (born429 B.C.), the pupilof Socrates, the fellow student of Euclid, anda followerof Pythagoras, studied science in histravels in Egyptand elsewhere. He was held in ...
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