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foundations for the discovery of the precession of the 

 equinoxes. Mr. Bayle reprehends Rohault as lying 

 under a mistake, when he says that u Hipparchns 

 knew nothing of the peculiar motion of the fixed stars 

 from west to east, whick is the cause of their varying 

 the longitude." Yea, and Timaeus' Locrensis, who 

 lived before Plato, taught this very astronomical truth 

 ia clear terms. 



