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problem; there was no notion of a governing
law of forces.
From this time onwards all interest in
astronomy seemed, in Europe at least, to
sink to a low ebb. When the Caliph Omar,
in the middle of the seventh century, burnt
the library of Alexandria, which had been
the centre of intellectual progress, that cen-
tre migrated to Baghdad, and the Arabs
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