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effect that a similar occurrence had upon
Hipparchus 1,700 years before. He felt it
his duty to catalogue all the principal stars,
so that there should be no mistake in the
future. During the construction of his cat-
alogue of 1,000 stars he prepared and used
accurate tables of refraction deduced from
his own observations. Thus he eliminated
(so far as naked eye observations required)
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