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times as long, 940 lunations, but one day
short of Melon’s seventy-six years. This was
more correct.
Eudoxus (406-350 B.C.) is said to have
travelled with Plato in Egypt. He made
astronomical observations in Asia Minor,
Sicily, and Italy, and described the starry
heavens divided into constellations. His name
is connected with a planetary theory which
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