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History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time

Note 28 — Chapter I · Earliest Stages of Astronomy.

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So also the Greeks, Homer,

Il.

xviii

. 487.

Ἄρκτον ἢν καὶ ἄμαξαν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν. The Northern Bear which oft the Wain they call.

Ἄρκτος was the traditional name; ἄμαξα, that suggested by the form.

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