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the real opinions of Socrates as set forth
by Xenophon; and the reader will, perhaps,
sympathise with Socrates in his views on
contemporary astronomy:–
With regard to astronomy he [Socrates]
considered a knowledge of it desirable to the
extent of determining the day of the year or
month, and the hour of the night, ... but
as to learning the courses of the stars, to
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