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by rules supported by a divine providence,
and that the heavenly bodies do not move
by chance, nor by their own will, but by
the determinate will and appointment of
the gods. They recorded these movements,
but mainly in the hope of tracing the will
of the gods in mundane affairs. Ptolemy
(about 130 A.D.) made use of Babylonian
eclipses in the eighth century B.C. for im-
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