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set to work to catalogue all the principal
stars so as to know if any others appeared
or disappeared. Here his experiences re-
sembled those of several later astronomers,
who, when in search of some special object,
have been rewarded by a discovery in a to-
tally different direction. On comparing his
star positions with those of Timocharis and
Aristillus he round no stars that had ap-
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