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gation from this date till the time of Kepler
in the sixteenth century. He proposed to as-
tronomers the problem of representing the
courses of the planets by circular and uni-
form motions .
Systematic observation among the Greeks
began with the rise of the Alexandrian school.
Aristillus and Timocharis set up instruments
and fixed the positions of the zodiacal stars,
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