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... discovery, and, by recognisingthe different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients. No one can expect, in a history of astronomy of limited size, tofind a treatise on "practical" or on ...
... discovery, and, by recognisingthe different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients. No one can expect, in a history of astronomy of limited size, tofind a treatise on "practical" or on ...
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... discovery opens up, itmay be, boundless oceans for investigation, for wonder,and for admiration, the great astronomers, refusingtoaccept mere hypotheses as true, have founded upon these discoveries ascienceas exactinits observation ...
... discovery opens up, itmay be, boundless oceans for investigation, for wonder,and for admiration, the great astronomers, refusingtoaccept mere hypotheses as true, have founded upon these discoveries ascienceas exactinits observation ...
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... recordedhad fled into Egypt with Jeremiah" (Sayce); and(2) that the order of intercalationatthat time wasnot dissimilarto that in useat the presentday. Then again, Knobel reminds us of "the most interesting discovery.
... recordedhad fled into Egypt with Jeremiah" (Sayce); and(2) that the order of intercalationatthat time wasnot dissimilarto that in useat the presentday. Then again, Knobel reminds us of "the most interesting discovery.
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George Forbes. Then again, Knobel reminds us of "the most interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon inthe seventhyear ofCambyses, onthe fourteenth day ...
George Forbes. Then again, Knobel reminds us of "the most interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon inthe seventhyear ofCambyses, onthe fourteenth day ...
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... discovery ina totally different direction. On comparing his star positions with those of Timocharis and Aristillus he found nostarsthat had appeared or disappeared in the interval of150 years; buthe found thatall the stars seemed to ...
... discovery ina totally different direction. On comparing his star positions with those of Timocharis and Aristillus he found nostarsthat had appeared or disappeared in the interval of150 years; buthe found thatall the stars seemed to ...
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