The Calculation of Solar Eclipses Without Parallaxes: With a Specimen of the Same in the Total Eclipse of the Sun, May 11, 1724 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Whiston, William

 
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1' tioned by'pliny, Nanflifl. II.) and i by him only of all the Ancients, is the Interval of 223'syn'odical Months 2 658; Days or 18 filiad Years: with 10 Days, when the Cycle or Period contains 5 Leap Years: and with 11 Days, when With 7 Hours In which Time the diueft mean Moti on of the Mbon and her Apogee in the Ecliptick, is nearl fo much more; and the Retrograde mean tion of the Node: nearly fo much lef: than entire Révol'utions, as the mean Morion of.

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