单词 | libration in longitude |
释义 | > as lemmaslibration in longitude 2. Astronomy. A real or apparent motion of an oscillating kind. libration of the moon: an apparent irregularity of the moon's motion which makes it appear to oscillate in such a manner that the parts near the edge of the disk are alternately visible and invisible. (There are three kinds, called libration in latitude, libration in longitude, and diurnal or parallactic libration.) ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > planetary movement > [noun] > other movements translation of (the) light and nature?1583 separation1595 ingress1603 transit1644 libration1670 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > movement of moon > [noun] > libration libration1670 evection1704 reflection1704 variation1704 1670 J. Flamstead in Philos. Trans. 1669 (Royal Soc.) 4 1109 If the Libration of the Moon be known, the protraction of the Star's way in this Appearance will be facile. 1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2061 Doubtless, as there is a certain Libration in the Moon, so 'tis not absurd to me, to hold a kind of Libration in the Earth, from the Annual and Diurnal motion of the same. 1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 181 We are nonplus'd at a thousand Phenomenas in Nature, which if they were not done, we should have thought them absolutely impossible, as for instance the central Libration of the Earth. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 754 Now this Libration of the Eccentrick they commonly call the Deviation. 1728 tr. I. Newton Treat. Syst. World 61 The Moon's libration in longitude. 1804 Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 94 374 Some small annual variation, or libration of position, which might lead to a discovery of the parallax of the fixed stars. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 547 Her [sc. the moon's] libration in latitude, is when either of her poles appears to dip a little towards the earth. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) ix. 78 The moon..is liable to librations depending upon the position of the spectator. 1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. vi. 128 Galileo had discovered and explained the diurnal libration, arising from the spectator not viewing the moon from the centre of the earth. 1861 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. i. vii. 42 When the north pole [of the Moon] leans towards the Earth, we see somewhat more of the region surrounding it,..this is known as libration in latitude. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ 51 There is one hemisphere of the lunar surface on which in its entirety, no human eye has ever gazed, while at the same time the moon's librations enable us to conjecture of its general character. < as lemmas |
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