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... Hipparchus , a period of about four hundred and forty years , was exceedingly 1. Herodotus , 1. i . , p . 184 . 2. Ibid , 1. ii . , p . 144 . vague and undefined . The Attic or Athenian lunar year AGE OF THE WORLD , & C . 165.
... Hipparchus , a period of about four hundred and forty years , was exceedingly 1. Herodotus , 1. i . , p . 184 . 2. Ibid , 1. ii . , p . 144 . vague and undefined . The Attic or Athenian lunar year AGE OF THE WORLD , & C . 165.
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... Hipparchus , who lived almost three hundred years after Meton , b was the first who found out , that the Equinox had a motion backwards , since even he was so far from being ac- curate , that he miscounted twenty - eight years in one ...
... Hipparchus , who lived almost three hundred years after Meton , b was the first who found out , that the Equinox had a motion backwards , since even he was so far from being ac- curate , that he miscounted twenty - eight years in one ...
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