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Definition of Platonic year
1. Noun. Time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platonic Year
Literary usage of Platonic year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1896)
"This is called a platonic year. Progression of the perihelion point of the earth's
orbit (11 seconds per year) is added to this, making 61 seconds of space ..."
2. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1896)
"This is called a platonic year. Progression of the perihelion point of the earth's
orbit (11 seconds per year) is added to this, making 61 seconds of space ..."
3. A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Or, A Philosophical View of the by Thomas Keith (1811)
"When 12895) years, being half the platonic year, are completed (which may be ...
UA Platonic year is a period of time determined by the revolution of the ..."
4. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of by Charles Hutton (1815)
"In physics, he chiefly followed Heraclitus; in ethics and politics, Socrates ;
and in metaphysics, Pythagoras. PLATONIC Year, or the ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1875)
"This revolution of 21000 years in which our seasons will revolve round to their
present position is called " the great Platonic year." During the first half ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1896)
"This is called a platonic year. Progression of the perihelion point of the earth's
orbit (11 seconds per year) is added to this, making 61 seconds of space ..."
7. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1896)
"This is called a platonic year. Progression of the perihelion point of the earth's
orbit (11 seconds per year) is added to this, making 61 seconds of space ..."
8. A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Or, A Philosophical View of the by Thomas Keith (1811)
"When 12895) years, being half the platonic year, are completed (which may be ...
UA Platonic year is a period of time determined by the revolution of the ..."
9. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of by Charles Hutton (1815)
"In physics, he chiefly followed Heraclitus; in ethics and politics, Socrates ;
and in metaphysics, Pythagoras. PLATONIC Year, or the ..."
10. The Methodist Review (1875)
"This revolution of 21000 years in which our seasons will revolve round to their
present position is called " the great Platonic year." During the first half ..."
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