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proving his solar and lunar tables.
Fragments of a library at Agade have
been preserved at Nineveh, from which we
learn that the star-charts were even then di-
vided into constellations, which were known
by the names which they bear to this day,
and that the signs of the zodiac were used
for determining the courses of the sun, moon,
and of the five planets Mercury, Venus, Mars,
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