Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 163
is ineither of the positions j, or j (in which the earth appearsto the observer on Jupiter to be at its greatest distance 120 A Short History of Astronomy [Ch. iv. from the sun), the motion of the earth itself being directlyto or from Jupiter produces no effect on the apparentmotion of Jupiter… … Fig. 48.—The stationary points of Jupiter. Jupiter appears to be also from right to left, or from westto east. Hence, as before, between j, and j and betweenJ and j2 there must be points /,, j3 (Jan. 24 and May 27,in fig. 6) at which Jupiter appears for the moment to bestationary. The actual…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-341-233.webp)
