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CLEOSTRATUS

Volume 5 · 48 words · 1797 Edition

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 366th before Christ.

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