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Definition of Lunar latitude
1. Noun. An imaginary line around the moon parallel to its equator.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunar Latitude
Literary usage of Lunar latitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Babylonian Horoscopes by Francesca Rochberg (1998)
"Latitude Statements about lunar latitude occur in three horoscopes from Uruk,
texts 10 (dated -234) and 16a and b (dated -198 and -199). ..."
2. Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from by José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein (2000)
"It gives the lunar latitude, called latitudo lune precissa in the heading, as a
function of the argument of lunar latitude. The argument of latitude ranges ..."
3. Levi Ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction Of 1345: Transactions, APS by Bernard Goldstein (2007)
"With the lunar position in the text and the computed value for the Ascending
Node, we find the argument of lunar latitude to be 2;11,47°. ..."
4. Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus by Alexander Jones (1999)
"The front side of fragment 1 is part of the table for solar declination and lunar
latitude (V f. 44). In the medieval copies this table is ruled in six ..."
5. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Astronomical Manuscripts Preserved by David Edwin Pingree (2003)
"Table of lunar latitude for 1° to 90° (maximum is 270' at 90°); and table of
digits of lunar latitude measured in sixths for 1 to 30 units of 6° (maximum 90 ..."
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