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East
Overview
East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
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The pretended scholars of Egypt said that the sun in the space of eleven thousand years had set twice in the east and risen twice in the west. When the equator and the ecliptic coincided, and when the days were everywhere equal to the nights the sun did not on that account change its setting and rising, but the earth turned on its axis from west to east, as at this day. This idea of making the sun set in the east is…
Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02
States what East is; names East several times.
The same principle, the attraction of the Sun, which thus accounts for the motions of the Nodes, connects, too, another very perplexing irregularity in the appearances of the Moon; the perpetual variation in the inclination of her orbit to that of the Earth. As the Moon revolves in an ellipse, which has the centre of the {381} Earth in one of its foci, the longer axis of its orbit is called the Line of its Apsides…
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
States what East is; names East.
3. The third, called matutine setting, is when the Sun may be actually in the oriental horizon, but the star in the occidental. One of the forms of this aspect is called the oriental, succedent setting, invisible; when the star sets immediately after the Sun’s rising: another is the precise oriental co-setting, when the star sets at the moment of the Sun’s rising: another is the oriental, precedent, and visible…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
States what East is.
Philosophers who discussed East
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- Greek language
- Latin
- Middle Ages
- Eastern world
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- The Guardian
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- Old English
- Merriam-Webster
- Sun
- Social norm
- Uranus
- Christianity
- Proto-Indo-European language
- Anatolia
- Earth
- Metonymy
Place in the tradition
Part of Indonesian philosophy.