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... seems to dominate our present universe, as a rule for predicting the course ofevents,andas aguidetothe choiceof a ... seem to us absurd, let us be tolerant, and gratefully acknowledge that these astrologers, when they suggested such ...
... seems to dominate our present universe, as a rule for predicting the course ofevents,andas aguidetothe choiceof a ... seem to us absurd, let us be tolerant, and gratefully acknowledge that these astrologers, when they suggested such ...
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... 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 ignorance of the ...
... 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 ignorance of the ...
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