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... sources of knowledge about Chinese astronomy were supplied, firstby Father Souciet,who in1729 published Observations Astronomical, Geographical, Chronological, and Physical, drawn from ancient Chinese books; and later AND CHALDĈANS. ...
... sources of knowledge about Chinese astronomy were supplied, firstby Father Souciet,who in1729 published Observations Astronomical, Geographical, Chronological, and Physical, drawn from ancient Chinese books; and later AND CHALDĈANS. ...
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George Forbes. Chronological, and Physical, drawn from ancient Chinese books; and later by Father MoyriacdeMailla, who in 1777 1785 published Annals of the Chinese Empire, translated from TongKienKangMou. Bailly, inhis Astronomie ...
George Forbes. Chronological, and Physical, drawn from ancient Chinese books; and later by Father MoyriacdeMailla, who in 1777 1785 published Annals of the Chinese Empire, translated from TongKienKangMou. Bailly, inhis Astronomie ...
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... physical philosophers, ... and,infine,heheld thatthespeculators on the universe and on the laws of the heavenly bodies were no better than madmen (Xen. Mem, i.1,1115). Plato (born429 B.C.), the pupilof Socrates, the fellow student of ...
... physical philosophers, ... and,infine,heheld thatthespeculators on the universe and on the laws of the heavenly bodies were no better than madmen (Xen. Mem, i.1,1115). Plato (born429 B.C.), the pupilof Socrates, the fellow student of ...
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... physically its controller. FOOTNOTES: [1] Phil.Mag.,vol. xxiv., pp. 4814. [2] Πληιάδας τʽ ἐσορω̑ντε καὶ ὀψὲ δύοντα βοώτην ʼΆρκτον θ̕,ἣνκαὶ ἅμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν,ʽΉτ̕ αὐτου̑ στρέφεται καὶ τ̕ʼΩρίωνα δοκεύει,Οἴη δ̕ἄμμοροςἐστι λοετρων ...
... physically its controller. FOOTNOTES: [1] Phil.Mag.,vol. xxiv., pp. 4814. [2] Πληιάδας τʽ ἐσορω̑ντε καὶ ὀψὲ δύοντα βοώτην ʼΆρκτον θ̕,ἣνκαὶ ἅμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν,ʽΉτ̕ αὐτου̑ στρέφεται καὶ τ̕ʼΩρίωνα δοκεύει,Οἴη δ̕ἄμμοροςἐστι λοετρων ...
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... physical connexion withthe planets as thecentreof their motions. According to Copernicus' sixth book,the planes ofthe planetary orbits donot pass through thesun, and the lines of apses do not pass through to the sun. Such wasthe theory ...
... physical connexion withthe planets as thecentreof their motions. According to Copernicus' sixth book,the planes ofthe planetary orbits donot pass through thesun, and the lines of apses do not pass through to the sun. Such wasthe theory ...
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