Osiris, Volúmenes1-10Saint Catherine Press, 1952 |
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... PTOLEMY ( 11 ) , who expresses the value of the solar year and synodic month in days and sexagesimal fractions of days in descending orders , like our minutes and seconds . From PTOLEMY this method might have penetrated into Hindu ...
... PTOLEMY ( 11 ) , who expresses the value of the solar year and synodic month in days and sexagesimal fractions of days in descending orders , like our minutes and seconds . From PTOLEMY this method might have penetrated into Hindu ...
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... PTOLEMY , partly corrected and completed , partly distorted " ( 4 ) . Perhaps the greatest disservice rendered by PTOLEMY to posterity was his conception of the African continent . In his map of the world ( 5 ) , Africa is shown as ...
... PTOLEMY , partly corrected and completed , partly distorted " ( 4 ) . Perhaps the greatest disservice rendered by PTOLEMY to posterity was his conception of the African continent . In his map of the world ( 5 ) , Africa is shown as ...
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... PTOLEMY's authority ( 29 ) . In point of fact , however , PTOLEMY had not been as categorical as his Muslim followers . The two following quotations show clearly his point of view . " If the earth is supposed cut into four equal parts ...
... PTOLEMY's authority ( 29 ) . In point of fact , however , PTOLEMY had not been as categorical as his Muslim followers . The two following quotations show clearly his point of view . " If the earth is supposed cut into four equal parts ...
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HENRI BERR with portrait | 5 |
GOETHE and evolution | 35 |
GOETHEs interest in the history | 43 |
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