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in his public teaching, so that much that he taught was under the seal 

 of secrecy. He also sought greater freedom by removing from Samos 

 to Italy. 



It might be expected that with so much to build upon the genius 

 of Aristotle (384-322) would have accomplished great things in astro- 

 nomical science. But not so ! For some reason he rejected the theories 

 of Pythagoras and, although he is said to have come into possession 

 of great stores of Chaldean observations, on the capture of Babylon by 

 Alexander the Great, he made no use of them. Perhaps the task of 



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