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... Hipparchus , vague and undefined . The Attic or Athenian lunar year . The Macedonian Calen- dar . -The Greek Eucumenical Council . The era of the Seleucidae . The Cecropian Era and Parian Chronicle . - The Consular Era . The Olympiads ...
... Hipparchus , vague and undefined . The Attic or Athenian lunar year . The Macedonian Calen- dar . -The Greek Eucumenical Council . The era of the Seleucidae . The Cecropian Era and Parian Chronicle . - The Consular Era . The Olympiads ...
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... Hipparchus or Ptolomy , in their determination of the celestial motions ; for had there been any observations older than those we have , it cannot be doubted but the victorious Greeks must have procured them as well as those they did ...
... Hipparchus or Ptolomy , in their determination of the celestial motions ; for had there been any observations older than those we have , it cannot be doubted but the victorious Greeks must have procured them as well as those they did ...
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... Hipparchus who made the first catalogue of the fixed stars , not above one hundred and fifty years before Christ ; without which catalogue there could be scarce such a science as astronomy ; and it is to the subtilty and diligence of ...
... Hipparchus who made the first catalogue of the fixed stars , not above one hundred and fifty years before Christ ; without which catalogue there could be scarce such a science as astronomy ; and it is to the subtilty and diligence of ...
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R C. Shimeall. among them Hipparchus himself . Nor did posterity dare to altar the theories delivered by Ptolomy , though successively Albategnius and the Arabs , and after them the Spanish astronomers under Alphonsus en- deavored to ...
R C. Shimeall. among them Hipparchus himself . Nor did posterity dare to altar the theories delivered by Ptolomy , though successively Albategnius and the Arabs , and after them the Spanish astronomers under Alphonsus en- deavored to ...
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... Hipparchus , who flourished only about one hundred and fifty years be- fore Christ , there could be scarce such a science as as- tronomy , he having made the first catalogue of the fixed stars , such a catalogue being indispensable to ...
... Hipparchus , who flourished only about one hundred and fifty years be- fore Christ , there could be scarce such a science as as- tronomy , he having made the first catalogue of the fixed stars , such a catalogue being indispensable to ...
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