Concept
Equinox
Overview
astronomical event where the Sun is directly above the Earth's equator
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The minor bodily disorders mostly occur on the Moon’s being posited in a tropical or equinoctial sign; and, if in that of the vernal equinox, these disorders usually arise from the white leprosy; in that of the summer tropic, from tetters; in that of the autumnal equinox, from leprosy; and in that of the winter tropic, from the eruption of pimples, and similar inconveniences. Considerable diseases, however, take…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
Names Equinox twice; opens on Equinox.
Hipparchus, by comparing his own observations with those of some former Astronomers, had found that the equinoctial points were not always opposite to the same part of the Heavens, but that they advanced gradually eastward by so slow a motion, as to be scarce sensible in one hundred years, and which would require thirty-six thousand to make a complete revolution of the Equinoxes, and to carry them successively…
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
Names Equinox twice; opens on Equinox.
All this being laid down, the only thing remaining to settle chronology is to see through what star the colure of the equinoxes passes, and where it intersects at this time the ecliptic in the spring; and to discover whether some ancient writer does not tell us in what point the ecliptic was intersected in his time, by the same colure of the equinoxes. Clemens Alexandrinus informs us, that Chiron, who went with the…
Voltaire, Letters on England
Names Equinox several times; opens on Equinox.
Philosophers who discussed Equinox
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Place in the tradition
Part of Thales of Miletus.