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published Observations Astronomical, Ge-
ographical, Chronological, and Physical , drawn
from ancient Chinese books; and later by
Father Moyriac-de-Mailla, who in 1777-1785
published Annals of the Chinese Empire,
translated from Tong-Kien-Kang-Mou .
Bailly, in his Astronomie Ancienne (1781),
drew, from these and other sources, the con-
clusion that all we know of the astronomical
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