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Old 10-July-2003, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by kilopi
[Snip!]And maybe limit it to the last hundred years or so--I wouldn't want to see Ptolemy show up on that list. I'm kinda fond of the old guy.
I agree. Ptolemy may seem like bad astronomy now, but his work provided the basis for reasonably accurate ephemerides that were not superceded until the time of Kepler. Certainly not my idea of bad astronomy either! =D>
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