CLEOSTRATUS, a celebrated astronomer, born in Tenedos, was, according to Pliny, the first who discovered the signs of the zodiac; others say, that he only discovered the signs Aries and Sagittarius. He also corrected the errors of the Grecian year about the 306th year before Christ.
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