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sign the author with certainty. Probably
many of them were independently taken by
Chinese, Indian, Persian, Tartar, Egyptian,
Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Greek
astronomers. And we have not a particle
of information about the discoveries, which
may have been great, by other peoples–by
the Druids, the Mexicans, and the Peru-
vians, for example.
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