Ecliptic

(noun.) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator; 'all of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic'.

校对:卡特里娜

• There is no distinction between the equator and the ecliptic. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Further, the moon must at that time be in the same plane as the earth’s shadow; that is, the plane of the ecliptic in which the latter always moves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They calculated the angle of the ecliptic and the precession of the equinoxes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The sun's apparent diameter was contained 720 times in the ecliptic, that is, in the apparent path of the sun through the heavens. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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