Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 30
olemy the great Egyptian king and philoso-pher, called, from him, the Ptolemaic system. This is thesystem which we would naturally adopt upon casual thought.Here is the earth occupying the centre, and around it the moon issupposed to be revolving not quite as fast as the sun, next comesMercury,… … once around the heavens in 24 hours. To account for the irregu-lar motions of the planets before noticed, a modification of this
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