Essay on the Theory of the Earth

by baron Georges Cuvier

[192] See Laplace, Systeme du Monde, 3d edition, p. 17; and the Annuaire of 1818.

[193] See on the Inaccuracy of the Determinations of the Sphere of Eudoxus, M. Delambre, in the first volume of his History of the Astronomy of the Ancients, p. 120. et seq.

[194] See the Preliminary Discourse of the History of the Astronomy of the Middle Age, by M. Delambre, p. viii. et seq.

[195] Euterpe, chap. iv.

[196] Diog. Laert. lib. i. in Thalet.

[197] Saturnal. lib. i. cap. xv.

[198] Bibl. lib. i. p. 46.

[199] Geogr. p. 182.

[200] See regarding the probable newness of this period the excellent dissertation of M. Biot, in his Researches respecting several points of the Egyptian Astronomy, p. 148 et seq.

[201] See M. Delambre, Hist. de l’Astronomie, vol. i. p. 212. See also his analysis of Geminus, ibid. p. 211. Compare this with M. Ideler’s Memoirs on the Astronomy of the Chaldeans, in the fourth volume of M. Halma’s Ptolemy, p. 166.