CHAPTER III

.--INDUCTIVE EPOCH OF HIPPARCHUS.

_Sect._ 1. Establishment of the Theory of Epicycles and Eccentrics. 145 _Sect._ 2. Estimate of the Value of the Theory of Eccentrics and Epicycles. 151 _Sect._ 3. Discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes. 155

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