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For our purposes it is sufficient to refer for the relations existing between Damascius and the cuneiform records to Smith's Chaldaeische Genesis, pp. 63-66, to Lenormant's Essai de Commentaire sur les fragments Cosmogoniques de Berose, pp. 67 seq., and to Jensen's Kosmologie der Babylonier, pp. 270-272. The names are given by Damascius as Apasôn and Tauthe. Hommel, Proc. Soc. Bibl.
Berose the Chaldean discovered that the duration of her movement of rotation was equal to that of her movement of revolution, and he thus explained why the moon always presented the same side. Lastly, Hipparchus, 200 years before the Christian era, discovered some inequalities in the apparent movements of the earth's satellite.
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