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was a transition from ”flatland” to a space
of three dimensions.
Great progress was made when system-
atic observations began, such as following
the motion of the moon and planets among
the stars, and the inferred motion of the sun
among the stars, by observing their heliacal
risings –i.e., the times of year when a star
would first be seen to rise at sunrise, and
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