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Definition of Retrogradations
1. retrogradation [n] - See also: retrogradation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrogradations
Literary usage of Retrogradations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"The most unquestionable proof of all, however, is in that class of phenomena
called the retro- retrogradations gradations and stations of the planets, ..."
2. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"The most unquestionable proof of all, however, is in that class of phenomena
called the retro- retrogradations gradations and stations of the planets, ..."
3. Outlines of Astronomy: By Sir John F. W. Herschel by John Frederick William Herschel (1902)
"CHAPTER IX OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Apparent Motions of the Planets—Their Stations
and retrogradations—The Sun their Natural Centre of Motion—Inferior ..."
4. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"The most unquestionable proof of all, however, is in that class of phenomena
called the retrogradations and stations of the ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy: Adapted to the Present Improved State by John Farrar, Jean-Baptiste Biot (1827)
"These phenomena are called the stations and retrogradations of the planets. 501.
With respect to Mercury and Venus, they are easily explained upon any ..."
6. An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy: In Four Parts. Containing a Systematic by William Augustus Norton (1853)
"... Mars for 1 year and 1 month ; Jupiter for 6| months ; Saturn and Uranus each
a few days more than 6 months. STATIONS AND retrogradations OF THE ..."
7. A Treatise on Astronomy, Theoretical and Practical by Robert Woodhouse (1821)
"O« the general Phenomena of the Planets: their Phases, Points of Stations,
retrogradations, fyc. WE have now passed, in our course of enquiry, ..."
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