Equinoxes
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Examples
- The Babylonian astr onomers also observed that the successive vernal (or autumnal) equinoxes follow each other at intervals of a few seconds less than a year. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The time of the rising is now, owing to the precession of the equinoxes, different from what it was then (July 1st). Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And as a third important factor there is what is called the _precession of the equinoxes_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They calculated the angle of the ecliptic and the precession of the equinoxes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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