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when it could last be seen to rise at sun-
set. The grouping of the stars into con-
stellations and recording their places was a
useful observation. The theoretical predic-
tion of eclipses of the sun and moon, and of
the motions of the planets among the stars,
became later the highest goal in astronomy.
To not one of the above important steps
in the progress of astronomy can we as-
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