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which date it is claimed that these people
were studying astronomy.
(3) In the Odyssey, Calypso directs Odysseus,
in accordance with Phoenician rules for nav-
igating the Mediterranean, to keep the Great
Bear ”ever on the left as he traversed the
deep” when sailing from the pillars of Her-
cules (Gibraltar) to Corfu. Yet such a course
taken now would land the traveller in Africa.
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