must be borne in mind that its progress is most intimately connected with that of the race, it having always been the basis of geog raphy and navigation, and the soul of chronology. Some of the chief advances and discoveries in abstract mathe maties have been made in its service, and the methods both of observation and analysis once peculiar to its prao tice now furnish the firm bases upon which rest that great group of exact sciences which we call physics.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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