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also, Mr. Cowell[2] has examined the marks
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made on the baked bricks used by the ChaldAans
for recording the eclipses of 1062 B.C. and
762 B.C.; and has thereby been enabled,
in the last few years, to correct the lunar
tables of Hansen, and to find a more accu-
rate value for the secular acceleration of the
moon’s longitude and the node of her orbit
than any that could be obtained from mod-
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