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§ 16. | Measurement of time : the day and its division into hours : the lunar month : the year : the week |
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§ 17. | Eclipses : the saros |
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§ 18. | The rise of Astrology |
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CHAPTER II.
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§§ 19-20. | Astronomy up to the time of Aristotle. The Greek calendar : full and empty months : the octaeteris : Meton's cycle |
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§ 21. | The Roman calendar: introduction of the Julian Calendar |
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§ 22. | The Gregorian Calendar |
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§ 23. | Early Greek speculative astronomy : Thales and Pythagoras : the spherical form of the earth : the celestial spheres : the music of the spheres |
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§ 24. | Philolaus and other Pythagoreans : early believers in the motion of the earth : Aristarchus and Seleucus |
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§ 25. | Plato : uniform circular and spherical motions |
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§ 26. | Eudoxus : representation of the celestial motions by combinations of spheres : description of the constellations. Callippus |
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§§ 27-30. | Aristotle : his spheres : the phases of the moon : proofs that the earth is spherical : his arguments against the motion of the earth : relative distances of the celestial bodies : other speculations : estimate of his astronomical work |
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§§ 31-2. | The early Alexandrine school : its rise : Aristarchus : his estimates of the distances of the sun and moon. Observations by Timocharis and Aristyllus |
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§§ 33-4. | Development of spherics : the Phenomena of Euclid : the horizon, the zenith, poles of a great circle, verticals, declination circles, the meridian, celestial latitude and longitude, right ascension and declination. Sun-dials |
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