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One of the most important tasks of astronomy, since its beginnings, has been the determination of time and the closely related problem of the determination of position. The more we probe into the past, the more these activities appear to have had very practical aims. The Greeks were probably the first to regard astronomy as a topic of pure research.
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Schlosser, W., Schmidt-Kaler, T., Milone, E.F. (1991). Early Astronomy. In: Challenges of Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4434-9_3
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