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单词 first point of cancer
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first point of Cancer
first point of Cancer n. the point of the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic touches the tropic of Cancer tangentially, which the sun passes at the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and which was formerly in Cancer but is now in Gemini, owing to precession.
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c1475 tr. Secreta Secret. (Tripolitanus abbrev.) (1977) 346 (MED) Somyr begynneth whan the sun entreth in the first pointe of the signe of the Crabbe.]
1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course i. f. 9 When the sunne commeth into the first point of Cancer [Fr. au premier point de Cancer] on the eleuenth of Iune, they haue a day of 24. howers.
1969 Rev. Eng. Stud. 20 271 The only exceptional situation to which these lines point is that which occurred when Venus was at the first point of Cancer.
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