The elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy, for the use of colleges and academies (1872)
White, Charles J. (Charles Joyce), 1839-1917 · Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger · leaf 119
e ecliptic remains stationary in the heavens (or at leastso nearly stationary that the latitudes of the stars only varyby half a second of arc in a year), this precession must be con-sidered to be a motion of the equinoctial on the ecliptic. In Fig. 46, let EQ represent the equinoctial, and LC the…
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