Note 93 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

This has been clearly shown by Laplace in the Précis de l'Histoire de l'Astronomie, which forms the fifth book of his Exposition du Système du Monde (fifth edition). He gives a résumé of what he believes to have been the chief results obtained by the Chaldæan astronomers (pp. 12-14 in the separate issue of the Précis 1821, 8vo). It would now, perhaps, be possible, thanks to recent discoveries, to give more precise and circumstantial details than those of Laplace.