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learning of the Chinese, Indians, ChaldAans,
Assyrians, and Egyptians is but the rem-
nant of a far more complete astronomy of
which no trace can be found.
Delambre, in his Histoire de l’Astronomie
Ancienne (1817), ridicules the opinion of
Bailly, and considers that the progress made
by all of these nations is insignificant.
It will be well now to give an idea of
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