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1. 8,9 The study of astronomy is as ancient as the history of man. Yet during all the thousands of years since man,s beginning, little was known, and the stars were as mysterious as the Gods them- selves. Thus we pay the greatest of tribute to Thales, for it was he who took it out of the realm of the unknowable, and proved that it, like other phenomena of nature, was governed by natural laws. Little is known of this great astronomer who lived over 2500 years ago. The mathematical feat of predicting an eclipse of the sun was remarkable for that early time. Thales did not, of course, predict it with modern precision, for he had neither tools, nor the materials for making those tools. Yet he was keen enough to employ a peri- odicity in eclipses fthe Saroksj which he had discovered, to pre- dicting the time and place of future eclipses. Thus the eclipses of B. C. 585 has gone down through all history as a memorial to that great astronomer who made astronomy awscience. . ' A' . 125 Zg,a?.:4 ,yy Qi mf 1 1110. ' , ' yin' ' , , f ff' ff ,fff?'5!f3'7WW72224227 f f - wget? ,, f f 74-L5 7,1 ff 2214 ,11?g.fze4,:tZ'.QJZPQUZ'eww ,f , ' ' 4' -'leizfgfx -pal:-ff

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