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... century is not only incomplete but fundamentally wrong . This is even more true in the case of mankind than in that ... century ; they are prone to believe that almost everything worthwhile was done in the nineteenth or in the twentieth ...
... century is not only incomplete but fundamentally wrong . This is even more true in the case of mankind than in that ... century ; they are prone to believe that almost everything worthwhile was done in the nineteenth or in the twentieth ...
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... century . They compiled lists of stars and were soon able to predict eclipses . That early knowledge was not only ... century but is copied from an older document of the end of the third millennium ; the second , the Rhind papyrus , kept ...
... century . They compiled lists of stars and were soon able to predict eclipses . That early knowledge was not only ... century but is copied from an older document of the end of the third millennium ; the second , the Rhind papyrus , kept ...
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... century their longing was partly fulfilled by Constantine the African , aptly called " magister orientis et ... century and down to about the middle of the thirteenth century the foremost activity of Christian scholars was the ...
... century their longing was partly fulfilled by Constantine the African , aptly called " magister orientis et ... century and down to about the middle of the thirteenth century the foremost activity of Christian scholars was the ...
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