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tion can be trusted.
Our first detailed knowledge was gath-
ered in the far East by travellers, and by
the Jesuit priests, and was published in the
eighteenth century. The Asiatic Society of
Bengal contributed translations of Brahmin
literature. The two principal sources of knowl-
edge about Chinese astronomy were sup-
plied, first by Father Souciet, who in 1729
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