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"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"

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"On any day calculate the longitude of the Sun and the Moon for sunrise or sunset without applying the longitude corre…"

"Having fixed a pole, on a level piece of ground, and having described a circle by a cord attached to the pole, one sh…"

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"The West is a series of institutions and values. The West is not a geographical place. Russia is European, but not We…"

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"The Aitareya Brāhmana (VII.15.4), describing the merits of exertion, has the picturesque phrases: "A man while lying …"