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Book Ii.--the Physical Sciences in Ancient Greece.

History of the Inductive Sciences, From the Earliest to the Present Time · William Whewell — chapter 5 of 210 · ~39 words · public domain

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Plato's Timæus and Republic. 497 Hero of Alexandria. 501

BOOK III.--THE GREEK ASTRONOMY.

Introduction. 503

EARLIEST STAGES OF ASTRONOMY.

The Globular Form of the Earth. 505 The Heliocentric System among the Ancients. 506 The Eclipse of Thales. 508 {21}

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