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Chinese observations on the length of the
shadow of a vertical pillar, made thousands
of years before the Christian era, in summer
and winter.
There are other reasons why we must
be tolerant of the crude notions of the an-
cients. The historian, wishing to give credit
wherever it may be due, is met by two dif-
ficulties. Firstly, only a few records of very
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