10 ROMANIAN BOOKS RELATING TO «SOLSTIȚIÁL»
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solstițiál in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
solstițiál and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Romanian literature.
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An Introduction to Astronomy: Designed as a Text Book for ... - Pagina 14
The vernal equinox occurs about the 21st of March, and the autumnal the 22d of* September. 35. The Solstitial Points are the two points of the ecliptic most distant from the equator. The times when the sun comes to them are called solstices.
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Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy - Pagina 50
The solstitial points refer to the movement of the sun, north of the equator in summer and south of it in winter. They are the points marking the extreme northern and southern limits of this movement of the sun. The summer solstice, when the sun ...
Robert Hewitt Brown,
2002
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ... - Pagina 155
Solstice, in astronomy, that time when tie iua is in one of the solstitial points ; that is, when he is at his greatest distance from the equator; thus called because he then appears to stand fall, and not to change his distance from the equator for ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis,
1816
4
From Alexandria, Through Baghdad: Surveys and Studies in ...
An inscribed line crosses the fifth hour circle at an angle such that it evidently met the point, now broken away, where the meridian intersected the winter solstitial circle. This was part of a "daylight triangle,” comprising two lines extending from ...
Nathan Sidoli, Glen Van Brummelen,
2013
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ... - Pagina 155
Maj. i-JSolstice, in astronomy, that time when ftt fan is in one of the solstitial points ; that is, *kn he is at his greatest distance from the equa- lorj thus called because he then appears to stand fill, and not to change his distance from the e- tiitorfor ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis,
1806
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A New Theory accounting for the Dip of the Magnetic ... - Pagina 86
The solstitial range of temperature, at St. Petersburgh, is greater than at London, because its situation is continental inland, and in a higher northern latitude; therefore, the solstitial variation of the dip is more than 15'; but the diurnal range of ...
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Newton and the Origin of Civilization - Pagina 254
Newton's colure remarks and the originals in Petavius' Latin translation of Hipparchus' Commentary Newton Petavius'Latina solstitial: middle of Great Bear and of Cancer Medium Ursae maioris, [et] Cancri solstitial: neck of Hydrus Hydri collum ...
Jed Z. Buchwald, Mordechai Feingold,
2013
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The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis. Ir^njcs, and Solon, may consult Prize Di/scrta- noctial and solstitial points. Brown. bcti 'turthre to Natural and Revealed Religion, by ,'wjcod while, returned unto the king. Bacon. -The number Him. □Tnlii>i Tbnhgicai ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis,
1807
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Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial cartography in ... - Pagina 221
the feet of Cepheus and the northern boundary of the hemisphere, to the east of the winter solstitial colure. comments: The bottom ofthe page has been cut so that Centaurus, Lupus, and Piscis Austrinus in the winter hemisphere are lost.
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Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth
The significance of the solstitial directions is often cosmological rather than practical/calendrical, although the two are not mutually exclusive. In Hopi tradition, the main importance of the solstitial directions is that they define the fundamental ...
Clive L. N. Ruggles,
2005