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... original seventh century collection was probably copied before all of these mutila- tions had occurred , and numerous later texts were added to the copy : the result was the manuscripts Parisinus Græcus 2325 and 2327 and their numerous ...
... original seventh century collection was probably copied before all of these mutila- tions had occurred , and numerous later texts were added to the copy : the result was the manuscripts Parisinus Græcus 2325 and 2327 and their numerous ...
Page 182
... original manuscripts and which is probably untrue . Though the Arabs had splendid water - clocks , and study of the history of their science is always liable to reveal surprising achievements , as in Al - Khāzinī , a precursor of ...
... original manuscripts and which is probably untrue . Though the Arabs had splendid water - clocks , and study of the history of their science is always liable to reveal surprising achievements , as in Al - Khāzinī , a precursor of ...
Page 255
... original form of the Alfonsine Tables , " in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol . lxxx , pp . 243-62 . 19 In the south of France a last attempt to substitute spheres for epicycles and eccentrics was in the ...
... original form of the Alfonsine Tables , " in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol . lxxx , pp . 243-62 . 19 In the south of France a last attempt to substitute spheres for epicycles and eccentrics was in the ...
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