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PREFACE
An attempt has been made in these pages
to trace the evolution of intellectual thought
in the progress of astronomical discovery,
and, by recognising the different points of
view of the different ages, to give due credit
even to the ancients. No one can expect, in
a history of astronomy of limited size, to
find a treatise on ”practical” or on ”the-
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