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rector of these Observations, my Lord. The
fifteenth day we observed the Node of the
moon, and the moon was eclipsed.”
The Phoenicians are supposed to have
used the stars for navigation, but there are
no records. The Egyptian priests tried to
keep such astronomical knowledge as they
possessed to themselves. It is probable that
they had arbitrary rules for predicting eclipses.
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