The precise time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, making the day and night of equal length.
Two great circles, supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world, one of them passing through the solstitial and the other through the equinoctial points of the ecliptic, viz.
A continual shifting of the equinoctial points from east to west.
The equinoctial storm has commenced, and the monitors are not in view of Charleston, having sought quiet waters.
On account of the precession of the equinoxes, as explained in the last chapter, the time at which the sun has any particular position with respect to the stars, grows later year by year in relation to the equinoctial points.
Crishna, who was the equinoctial sun in Aries, appeared 2160 years after the first Buddha, who was the equinoctial sun in Taurus.
I had forgot about theequinoctial gales, and this caught me unawares.
In the douce benignance of equinoctial sunshine we gaze about us with eyes of inventory.
At the foot of the fall are seen the palms of the equinoctial low-lands.
Marinus had come near the truth, he gives out, and the Portuguese have proved that the Indies in Ethiopia is, as Marinus had said, four and twenty degrees from the equinoctial line.
I say that the world is not so large as vulgar opinion makes it, and that one degree from the equinoctial line measures fifty-six miles and two thirds, and this may be proved to a nicety.
The equinoctial gales came on again fiercely the day after I had reached Sark; and I stitched away from morning till night, trying to fix my thoughts upon my mechanical work.
It was one of those lovely days which come as a lull sometimes in the midst of the equinoctial gales, as if they were weary of the havoc they had made, and were resting with folded wings.
We proceeded in a south-east direction, crossing the trade winds on our way to the equinoctial line.
At every occurrence of this equinoctial change hightened by an eclipse of the sun or moon, or some other wonder-exciting phenomenon, a God was supposed to be born.
The ship that goeth from Cabo Verde to Brasil, must goe Southsoutheast: and when she is within 5 or 6 degrees of the Equinoctial she must go Southeast and by South.
South side of the Equinoctial line, and almost vnder the Tropike of Capricorne.
An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line.
A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.
The time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points, that is, about March 21 and September 22.
The equinoctial gales had now fairly set in, with violent south-east gales, heavy thunder, lightning, and rain.
All the stars seem to have a common and general motion about the pole of the ecliptic, at the rate of a degree in seventy-two years; this is occasioned by the precession of the equinoctial points.
In consequence of this apparent motion, the constellations change their positions in regard to the equinoctial points.
According to this calculation, they may pass from our climates to the Equinoctial line in seven or eight days!
Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles.
In addition to this great variation, we have a regular annual change dependent on the position of the sun, in reference to the equinoctial and solstitial points, which was discovered by Cassini, and investigated by Arago and others.
Like whispering voices, the trembling leaves sing rejoicingly in the breeze and summer sunshine, and they tremble alike with agony when the equinoctialgale rends them from the parent stalk.
From what I was able to observe during theequinoctial tides, I should think that we are in the axis of the tunnel.
It is just possible that during the lowest equinoctial tides the top of the orifice is uncovered.
Yet this is the season of the equinoctial gales, and the Bermudan waters are swept by frequent tempests.
Perhaps, during the next equinoctial tides, another notice to this effect in another keg may also reach a safe destination.
Here the equinoctialshowers began to fall heavily, and I was again obliged to sleep without observations.
At spring-tides, when rise and fall reach at least ten feet, and fourteen in the equinoctial ebb and flow, it appears a gridiron of grim black stone.
Life on the coast was not unpleasant, despite the equinoctial gales which broke on March 19 and blew hard till March 25.
Moreover, this could be done more accurately if an astrolabe were constructed with a network on which the entire equinoctial circle was divided up.
For from sunrise to sunrise, the whole equinoctial rises, and about one degree more, through which degree the sun moves against the motion of the firmament in the course of a natural day.
Yet clockmakers (artifices horologiorum) are trying to make a wheel (circulum) which will make one complete revolution for every one of the equinoctial circle, but they cannot quite perfect their work.
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