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to later scholars; but the fact remains that–
although at long intervals observations were
made of eclipses, comets, and falling stars,
and of the position of the solstices, and of
the obliquity of the ecliptic–records become
rare, until 776 B.C., when eclipses began to
be recorded once more with some approach
to continuity. Shortly afterwards notices of
comets were added. Biot gave a list of these,
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