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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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