A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 86
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 Hew much in angular measurement ? Revolving which way ? At whatrate ? How long for lc i For 80° ? For the… … eastward, and left the signs which bear their names.Hence the sign Aries actually covers the constellationPisces. 162. Another effect of the recession of the equinoxesis, that it gives to the pole of the earth a correspondingrevolution around the pole of the ecliptic in25,868 years. Let the line A…
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