A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1859)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, Mason brothers · leaf 87
position. Allowing the world tohave stood at this date (1853) 5,857 years, the equinoxeshave receded already through about 75° of longitude.At the same time the constellations have gone forward How much in angular measurement? Revolving which way? At whatrate? How long for 1°? For 30°? For the… … eastward, and left the signs which bear their names.Hence the sign Aries actually covers the constellation Pisces, ■* 162. Another effect of the recession of the equinoxesis, that it gives to the pole of the earth a correspondingrevolution around thepole of the ecliptic in25,868 years. Let the line…
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