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Libration   /laɪbrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Libration

noun
1.
(astronomy) a real or apparent slow oscillation of a moon or satellite.





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"Libration" Quotes from Famous Books



... He consoled his solitude, and lightened the hours of sickness, by continuing the observations which he was now forbidden to publish to the world; and the last of his long train of discoveries was the phenomenon known by the name of the moon's libration. In the course of 1636-37 he lost successively the sight of both his eyes. He mentions this calamity in a tone of pious submission, mingled with a not unpleasing pride. "Alas, your dear friend and servant ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various


Words linked to "Libration" :   astronomy, oscillation, uranology, variation, librate


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