Note 201 — The very remote Antiquity attributed to certain Nations is not supported by History.
Reading edition
See M. Delambre, Hist. de l’Astronomie, vol. i. p. 212. See also his analysis of Geminus, ibid. p. 211. Compare this with M. Ideler’s Memoirs on the Astronomy of the Chaldeans, in the fourth volume of M. Halma’s Ptolemy, p. 166.