Pliny and Hipparchus's 600-Year Cycle

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There is a vast literature on Thales's eclipse: cf, e.g., Aaboe A. , “Remarks on the theoretical treatment of eclipses in Antiquity”, Journal for the history of astronomy , iii (1972), 105–18.

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Toomer , op. cit. (ref. 5), 224, n. 14.

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Jones , op. cit. (ref. 7), 6; for a discussion of some technical aspects of Pliny's astronomy with reference to templates, cf. Jones A. , “Pliny on planetary cycles”, Phoenix , xlv (1991), 148–61, espec. pp. 157f.

Swerdlow N. M. , “Astronomical chronology and prophecy: Jean-Dominique Cassini's discovery of Josephus's great lunisolar period of the patriarchs”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes , liii (1990), 1–13, espec. p. 3; cf. Neugebauer , op. cit. (ref. 4), 358ff.

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